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that Sankara holds that "the Sutrakara was
anxious to hide the true doctrine of the Upani-
shads," or "that the greater part of the work
contains a kind of exoteric doctrine only." We
emphatically deny that there is any justification
for the remarks. Dr. Thibaut himself says :-
"Nowhere among the avowed followers of the
Sankara system is there any tendency to treat
the kernel of their philosophy as something to
be jealously guarded and forbidden." If this is
true of the followers of Sankara, it is equally
true of Sankara himself. There is nothing in
his Bhashya to show that he held that the Sutras
of Vyasa contain only an exoteric doctrine, and
not the Vedanta doctrine in full. In fact, San-
kara states ts follows the aim of the Sutras
almost at the very commencement of the work:—
"अस्यानर्थहेतोः प्रहाणाय आत्मैकत्वविद्याप्रतिपत्तये सर्वे वेदान्ता आर
भ्यन्ते । यदा चायमर्थः सर्वेषां वेदान्तानां तथा वयमस्यां शारीर-
salaiarai azafqeqı: ""The study of the Upani-
कमीमांसायां प्रदर्शयिष्यामः
shads is begun to remove this cause of all evil
(viz., the adhyasa or erroneous notion that the
internal organ is the self and vice versa) and to
attain to the knowledge of the absolute unity of
the self. As this is the purport of all the
F
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that Sankara holds that "the Sutrakara was
anxious to hide the true doctrine of the Upani-
shads," or "that the greater part of the work
contains a kind of exoteric doctrine only." We
emphatically deny that there is any justification
for the remarks. Dr. Thibaut himself says :-
"Nowhere among the avowed followers of the
Sankara system is there any tendency to treat
the kernel of their philosophy as something to
be jealously guarded and forbidden." If this is
true of the followers of Sankara, it is equally
true of Sankara himself. There is nothing in
his Bhashya to show that he held that the Sutras
of Vyasa contain only an exoteric doctrine, and
not the Vedanta doctrine in full. In fact, San-
kara states ts follows the aim of the Sutras
almost at the very commencement of the work:—
"अस्यानर्थहेतोः प्रहाणाय आत्मैकत्वविद्याप्रतिपत्तये सर्वे वेदान्ता आर
भ्यन्ते । यदा चायमर्थः सर्वेषां वेदान्तानां तथा वयमस्यां शारीर-
salaiarai azafqeqı: ""The study of the Upani-
कमीमांसायां प्रदर्शयिष्यामः
shads is begun to remove this cause of all evil
(viz., the adhyasa or erroneous notion that the
internal organ is the self and vice versa) and to
attain to the knowledge of the absolute unity of
the self. As this is the purport of all the
F