Only) to (the gods), the masters of knowledge, (its fruit belongs), on account of Shruti declaring that; thus Atreya opines.

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44. (Only) to (the gods), the masters of knowledge, (its fruit belongs), on account of Shruti declaring that; thus Atreya opines.

The fruit of knowledge declared by such texts as, “He who knows Brahman attains to the highest (Brahman)” (Tait II. 1), belongs to the gods only, who are its masters. The sage Atreya thinks thus from the Madhyandinayana Shruti which runs as follows: “Whatever good thing these people do, that the gods only do; whatever these people understand, that the gods only understand; for all this belongs to the gods only; and the master only enjoys the fruit, not he that is not the master, but (merely) does the work.”

45. Audulomi thinks that there is also fruit (benefit) accruing (to the soul), as in the case of sacrificial priests, because fur their sake that (the acquisition of knowledge) is made through them (the souls) by them (gods).

Just as in the sacrifice called Satrayaga, there is merit accruing to the priests also; so there is a small fraction of the effect accruing to the souls (through whom the gods work for knowledge). Thus the sage Audulomi thinks for the reason that the gods work through the souls for their (souls’) sake.

46. The third of the views is that the souls are appointed as other (secondary) auxiliaries, as they (men) are appointed tooth regard to him (the king or preceptor) that owns them.

The third view (is Badarayana’s own). The souls are appointed as the other (secondary) auxiliaries of the gods in their work of imparting knowledge, etc, just as the people (subjects) are appointed as auxiliary to the king who rules the people; or just as the pupils are to the preceptor. And this is said in the Varaha: “The duty of imparting right knowledge is imposed upon the gods by Vishnu; and it is enjoined upon them by scripture; and the chief auxiliary thereto is the preceptor (and next to him the souls form their auxiliaries); just as they (subjects) are correlated to the king in the act of protecting and the pupils are to the preceptor in the act of imparting knowledge. Therefore the souls obtain the fruit of study (knowledge, etc.); but the preceptors obtain a highly enhanced fruit; still more enhanced, it is said, is the fruit accruing to the gods.

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