Brahma Sutras (Shankaracharya)
by George Thibaut | 1890 | 203,611 words
English translation of the Brahma sutras (aka. Vedanta Sutras) with commentary by Shankaracharya (Shankara Bhashya): One of the three canonical texts of the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy. The Brahma sutra is the exposition of the philosophy of the Upanishads. It is an attempt to systematise the various strands of the Upanishads which form the ...
III, 3, 63
63. On account of the rectification.
The passage, 'From the seat of the Hotṛ he sets right any mistake committed in the udgītha' (Ch. Up. I, 5, 5), declares that, owing to the might of the meditation on the unity of praṇava and udgītha, the Hotṛ sets right any mistake he may commit in his work, by means of the work of the Hotṛ.
Now, as a meditation mentioned in one Veda is connected (with what is mentioned in another Veda) in the same way as a thing mentioned in another Veda, the above passage suggests the conclusion that all meditations on members of sacrificial acts--in whatever Veda they may be mentioned--have to be combined[1].
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[1]:
A 'thing' belonging to the Ṛg-veda, viz. the praṇava, is, according to the Chāndogya-passage, connected with the Sāma-veda meditation on the udgītha. Hence meditations also which belong to different Vedas may be combined; for there is no difference between them and things as far as connexion is concerned.