{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe38/sbe38241.htm","path":"hin/sbe38/sbe38241.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe38/sbe38241.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana, Commentary by Sankara (SBE38), tr. by George Thibaut [1896]\n32. The works of the \u00e2sramas (are incumbent on him) also (who does not desire release); because they are enjoined.\nUnder S\u00fbtra 26 it has been proved that the work's enjoined on the \u00e2sramas are means of knowledge. Now we will consider whether those works have to be performed also by him who does not desire final release and therefore takes his stand on his \u00e2srama merely without wishing for knowledge--Here the p\u00fbrvapakshin maintains that as the works incumbent on the \u00e2sramas are enjoined as means of knowledge by the passage, 'Him the Br\u00e2hmanas seek to know by the study of the Veda' &c., the works of permanent obligation are not to be performed by him who, not desirous of knowledge, wishes for some other fruit. Or else they are to be performed by him also; but then they cannot be means of knowledge, since it would be contradictory to attribute to them a permanent and a non-permanent connexion. 1\nAgainst this conclusion the S\u00fbtrak\u00e2ra remarks that the works of permanent obligation are to be performed by\nhim only who, not desirous of release, takes his stand on the \u00e2sramas merely, because they are enjoined by texts such 'as long as his life lasts he is to offer the agnihotra.' For to such texts no excessive weight must be ascribed.--The next S\u00fbtra replies to the objection raised above in the words, 'but then they cannot be means of knowledge.'\n312:1 I. e. we must not think that because they enjoin the 'nityat\u00e2' of certain works, other passages may not enjoin the same works as mere means of knowledge.","title":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana: Third Adhy\u00e2ya. Fourth P\u00e2da.: III, 4, 32","type":"page"}