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SUTRA IV. 3. 2.

वायुशब्दादविशेषविशेषाभ्याम्॥४.३.२॥

vāyuśabdādaviśeṣaviśeṣābhyām ..4.3.2..

... Vayum, the Vayu, or the wind. …. Abdad, before entering into the great Sun. (Abda, a year, hence the Sun and Great Sun, the Lord), … Avishesha, owing to non-specification. .., Visheshabhyam, and owing to specification.

2. The stage of Vayu comes after the Year, because there are non-specification and specification. — 523.

COMMENTARY

In the path beginning with Archis, the stage of Vayu is to be inserted after the Samvatsaram, and before the Aditya. Why? Because there is no specification in the Kaushitaki Upanishad, it is merely said, «He comes to the world of Agni, he comes to the world of Vayu». There is no specification where this Vayu-world comes in. The Shruti merely says, «He comes to this world, he comes to that world», without mentioning any «order of succession». But the passage of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (V., 10) gives specific succession. It shows that the world of Vayu comes before the world of the sun, for it says, «When a person goes away from this world, he comes to Vayu. The Vayu makes room for him like the hole of a carriage wheel and through it he mounts higher, he comes to the Sun». Thus while the Kaushitaki Upanishad gives no specification where the Vayuloka comes in, and the Brihadaranyaka gives the specification that it comes in before the Sun, so combining the non-specification of the one, with the specification of the other, we place Vayuloka before the world of the Sun. This being so, the passage in the Brihadaranyaka which says that from the months he goes to the Devaloka and from the Devaloka he goes to the Adityaloka should be interpreted in accordance with the above. The Devaloka there must be interpreted as meaning the world of Vayu. The text of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is to be found in VI., 2. 15:

Those who thus know this (even Grihasthas), and those who in the forest worship faith and the True (Brahman Hiranyagarbha), go to light (Archis), from light to day, from day to the increasing half, from the increasing half to the six months when the sun goes to the north, from those six months to the world of the Devas (Devaloka), from the world of the Devas to the sun, from the sun to the place of lightning. When they have thus reached the place of lightning, a spirit comes near them, and leads them to the worlds of the Brahman. In these worlds of Brahman they dwell exalted for ages. There is no returning for them.

The Devaloka mentioned in the above passage of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad should be understood as meaning the Vayuloka. Because we have a text saying: «That which is Vayu is indeed the homo of the Devas». Therefore Vayu being the home of the Devas, is Devaloka.

But others say that Devaloka itself is a stage on the path and it comes after the Samvatsara and before the Vayuloka. This Devaloka is not to be inserted between the six months and the year, because the Uttarayana naturally leads to the year, and their connection is well-known. Therefore, the Devaloka and the Vayuloka are both to be inserted after the Samvatsaram and before the Aditya.

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