And since such duty is auxiliary to knowledge (in enhancing its fruit), (the wise also should observe it).

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33. And since such duty is auxiliary to knowledge (in enhancing its fruit), (the wise also should observe it).

For the co-operativeness of duties is described in the Kamatha Shruti thus:

“Just as the minister is only a help to the king, while the king can accomplish his work even without him, so also knowledge can accomplish its end even without the aid of Karma, but there is no question whatever as to its being helpful to knowledge towards making the object or fruit complete.”

In the Brahmandapurana also it is said:

“It is settled that from knowledge release is obtained, though he (the wise) may do all that is prohibited or omit to do all that is to be done. But there is a dwindling of bliss by doing what is prohibited, and there is enhancement of bliss by doing what is good.”

The Brihat Tantra says:

“The absolution from all miseries is, however, assured to the wise; but by the meditation, dutiful acts and devotion, (practised after the dawn of wisdom) the bliss (enjoyed in heaven) is enhanced. The Padmapurana also says, “ The characteristic of what is righteous is really peculiar and various. Therefore whatever is acceptable in the opinion of the gods, (etc.,) is to be considered righteous duty. For they are not like the beings of the world.”

34. By all the means (that may be tried) they (the eligible) alone (obtain knowledge); but (not the ineligible); from indication of both as to both.

Whatever may be the effort made, only those that are eligible for knowledge obtain it, not others. For there is the indication of both, viz., the eligible Indra obtaining right knowledge and the ineligible Virochana obtaining wrong knowledge, though what was imparted by the preceptor was the same, which is contained in the Shruti, “He who is the sole Lord, absolutely sinless and as such free from old age, death, sorrow, pains of hunger and thirst, whose wishes and thoughts are real, He is to be sought for and thoroughly enquired into” (Ch. VIII. 7. 3).

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