{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe38/sbe38245.htm","path":"hin/sbe38/sbe38245.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe38/sbe38245.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana, Commentary by Sankara (SBE38), tr. by George Thibaut [1896]\n36. But also (persons standing) between (are qualified for knowledge); for that is seen (in scripture).\nA doubt arises whether persons in want who do not possess means, &c., and therefore are not able to enter one or the other of the \u00e2sramas., standing between as it were, are qualified for knowledge or not.--They are not qualified, the p\u00fbrvapakshin maintains. For we have ascertained that the works incumbent on the \u00e2sramas are the cause of knowledge, and those persons have no opportunity to perform those works.--To this the S\u00fbtrak\u00e2ra replies. 'But also between.' Even a person who because he does not belong to an \u00e2srama stands between, as it were, is qualified for knowledge. 'For that is seen.' For we meet with scriptural passages declaring that persons of that class--such as Raikva and the daughter of Vakaknu--possessed the knowledge of Brahman (Kh. Up. IV, 1; Bri. Up. III, 6, 8).","title":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana: Third Adhy\u00e2ya. Fo...","type":"page"}