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53. But those (meditations) which are connected with members (of sacrifices) are not (restricted) to (particular) s�kh�s, but rather (belong) to all s�kh�s.
There are certain meditations connected with certain constituent elements of sacrifices-as e.g. 'Let a man meditate on the syllable Om (as) the Udg�tha '(Kh. Up. I, 1, 1); 'Let a man meditate on the fivefold Saman as the five worlds' (Kh. Up. II, 2, 1), &c. The question here arises whether those meditations are restricted to the members of those s�kh�s in whose texts they are mentioned; or to be connected with the Udg�tha, and so on, in all s�kh�s. There is here a legitimate ground for doubt, in so far as, although the general agreement of all Ved�nta-texts is established, the Udg�tha, and so on, are different in each Veda since the accents differ in the different Vedas--The P�rvapakshin declares that those meditations are limited each to its particular s�kh�; for, he says, the injunction 'Let him meditate on the Udg�tha' does indeed, verbally, refer to the Udg�tha in general; but as what stands nearest to this injunction is the special Udg�tha of the s�kh�, in whose text this injunction occurs, and which shares the peculiarities of accent characteristic of that s�kh�, we decide that the meditation is enjoined on members of that s�kh� only.--The S�tra sets this opinion aside. The injunction of meditations of this type is valid for all s�kh�s, since the text expressly connects them with the Udg�tha in general.
They therefore hold good wherever there is an Udg�tha. The individual Udg�thas of the several s�kh�s are indeed distinguished by different accentuation; but the general statement, 'Let him meditate on the Udg�tha.' suggests to the mind not any particular Udg�tha, but the Udg�tha in general, and hence there is no reason to restrict the meditation to a particular s�kh�. From the principle moreover that all s�kh�s teach the same doctrine, it follows that the sacrifice enjoined in the different s�kh�s is one only; and hence there is no reason to hold that the Udg�tha suggested by the injunction of the meditation is a particular one. For the Udg�tha is only an element in the sacrifice, and the sacrifice is one and the same. The meditations are not therefore limited to particular s�kh�s.
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