Brahma-Sūtra 3.3.62 (prima facie view, concluded)

English of translation of Brahmasutra 3.3.62 by Roma Bose:

“And on account of the scriptural text about the commonness of attributes.”

Nimbārka’s commentary (Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha):

“And on account of the scriptural text about the commonness of attribute,” viz. “Thereby this triad....^[1] exists” (Chāndogya-upaniṣad 1.1.9^[2]).

Śrīnivāsa’s commentary (Vedānta-kaustubha)

And on account of the scriptural mention of the commonness of “attribute”, i.e. of the Om-kāra, the basis of meditation, in all sacrificial works, thus: “Thereby this triad..... exists” (Chāndogya-upaniṣad 1.1.9).

The meaning is that ‘thereby i.e. by the Om-kāra, the basis of meditation, ‘the triad exists’, i.e. the works mentioned in the three Vedas proceed.^[3] The sense is that those meditations too which are based on the subsidiary parts are to he regularly included in those sacrifices, just like the subsidiary parts themselves,

Comparative views of Baladeva:

This is sūtra 66 in his commentary. He continues here the topic of the meditation on the limbs of the Lord. He takes this to be setting forth a prima facie view. Hence the sūtra: “(Every limb of the Lord must be meditated on as possessed of the powers or attributes of all the rest), on account of a scriptural text about the commonness of attributes,” That is, a text in the Bhagavad-gītā, viz. “Everywhere that has hands and feet” (Gītā 13.14), shows that every limb of the Lord can discharge the function of every other limb. Hence every member must be so meditated on.^[4]

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

Correct quotation: “Tenāyaṃ trayī vidyā vartate”.

[2]:

Quoted by Śaṅkara, Rāmānuja and Śrīkaṇṭha.

[3]:

The text continues: “With ‘Om’ the Adhvaryyu [Adhvaryu] gives orders, with ‘Om’ the Hotṛ recites, with ‘Om’ the Udgātṛ sings”.

[4]:

Govinda-bhāṣya 3.3.68, p. 231, Chap. 3.