{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe38/sbe38317.htm","path":"hin/sbe38/sbe38317.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe38/sbe38317.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana, Commentary by Sankara (SBE38), tr. by George Thibaut [1896]\n16. And scripture declares a difference (in the case of meditations on symbols).\nWith reference to the meditations on symbols, such as name and so on, scripture declares that each following meditation has a different result from the preceding one, 'As far as name reaches he is lord and master;--speech is greater than name;--as far as speech reaches he is lord and master;--mind is greater than speech' (Kh. Up. VII, 1, ff.).\n[paragraph continues] Now this distinction of rewards is possible because the meditations depend on symbols, while there could be no such distinction if they depended on the one non-different Brahman.--Hence those who take their stand on symbols cannot have the same reward as others.","title":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana: Fourth Adhy\u00e2ya. Third P\u00e2da: IV, 3, 16","type":"page"}