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36. Also In The Case Of Those Outside, As This Is Seen





Hindu Books > Hindu Scriptures > The Vedanta - Sutras > Adhyaya III > Pada IV > 36. Also In The Case Of Those Outside, As This Is Seen

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36. Also in the case of those outside, as this is seen.

It has been declared that the members of the four �sramas have a claim to the knowledge of Brahman, and that the duties connected with each �srarna promote knowledge. A doubt now arises whether those men also who, on account of poverty and so on, stand outside the �sramas are qualified for the knowledge of Brahman, or rtot.--They are not, the P�rvapakshin holds, since such knowledge is to be attained in a way dependent on the special duties of each �srama; while those who do not belong to an �srama are not concerned with �srama duties.--This view the S�tra rejects. Those also who do not stand within any �srama are qualified for knowledge, 'because that is seen,' i.e. because the texts declare that men such as Raikva, Bh�shma, Samvarta and others who did not belong to �srama were well grounded in the knowledge of Brahman.

It can by no means be maintained that it is �srama duties only that promote knowledge; for the text 'by gifts, by penance, by fasting, and so on' (Bri. Up. IV, 4, 22) distinctly declares that charity also and other practices, which are not confined to the �sramas, are helpful towards knowledge. In the same way as in the case of those bound to chastity--who, as the texts show, may possess the knowledge of Brahman--knowledge is promoted by practices other than the Agnihotra and the like, so--it is concluded--in the case of those also who do not belong to any abrama knowledge may be promoted by certain practices not exclusively connected with any �srama, such as prayer, fasting, charity, propitiation of the divinity, and so on.









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