{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe48/sbe48059.htm","path":"hin/sbe48/sbe48059.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe48/sbe48059.htm","text":"26. If it be objected that (Brahman is) not (denoted) on account of the metre being denoted; (we reply) not so, because thus the direction of the mind (on Brahman) is declared; for thus it is seen.\nThe previous section at first refers to the metre called G\u00e2yatr\u00ee, 'The G\u00e2yatr\u00ee indeed is everything' (III, 12, 1), and then introduces--with the words 'this is also declared by a Rik verse'--the verse, 'Such is the greatness of it (viz. the G\u00e2yatr\u00ee),' &c. Now, as this verse also refers to the metre, there is not any reference to the highest Person.--To this objection the second part of the S\u00fbtra replies. The word 'G\u00e2yatr\u00ee' does not here denote the metre only, since this cannot possibly be the Self of all; but the text declares the application of the idea of G\u00e2yatr\u00ee to Brahman, i.e. teaches, to the end of a certain result being obtained, meditation on Brahman in so far as similar to G\u00e2yatr\u00ee. For Brahman having four feet, in the sense indicated by the rik, may be compared to the G\u00e2yatr\u00ee with its four (metrical) feet. The G\u00e2yatr\u00ee (indeed has as a rule three feet, but) occasionally a G\u00e2yatr\u00ee with four feet is met with; so, e.g., 'Indras sak\u00eepatih | valena p\u00eeditah | duskyavano vrish\u00e2 | samitsu s\u00e2sahih.' We see that in other passages also words primarily denoting metres are employed in other senses; thus, e.g., in the samvargavidy\u00e2 (Kh. Up. IV, 3, 8), where Vir\u00e2g (the name of a metre of ten syllables) denotes a group of ten divine beings.\nFor this conclusion the next S\u00fbtra supplies a further argument.","title":"SBE 48: The Vedanta-Sutras with commentary by Ramanuja, George Thibaut, tr.: First P\u00e2da: 26. If it be objected that Brahman is not denoted...","type":"page"}