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teaching and even enumerate the names of those
who have maintained the tradition.
Dr. Thibaut next reverts to the question
(already discussed in connection with the
Sutras) concerning the ultimate fate of those
who attained to a knowledge of Brahman and
marshals together a number of passages
(pages cvii and cviii of his Introduction) related to
various vidyas or upasanas which secure to
those who devote themselves to them the world
of Brahman. He goes on to say :-"All these
passages are as clear as can be desired. The
soul of the sage who knows Brahman passes
out by the sushumna, and ascends by the path
of the gods to the world of Brahman there to
remain for ever in some blissful state. But, accor-
ding to Sankara, all these texts are meant to
set forth the result of a certain inferior know-
ledge only, of the knowledge of the condi-
tioned Brahman. Even in a passage apparently
so entirely incapable of more than one interpre-
tation as Brih-Up-VI-2, 15, the 'True' which
the holy hermits in the forest are said to worship
is not to be the highest Brahman, but only
teaching and even enumerate the names of those
who have maintained the tradition.
Dr. Thibaut next reverts to the question
(already discussed in connection with the
Sutras) concerning the ultimate fate of those
who attained to a knowledge of Brahman and
marshals together a number of passages
(pages cvii and cviii of his Introduction) related to
various vidyas or upasanas which secure to
those who devote themselves to them the world
of Brahman. He goes on to say :-"All these
passages are as clear as can be desired. The
soul of the sage who knows Brahman passes
out by the sushumna, and ascends by the path
of the gods to the world of Brahman there to
remain for ever in some blissful state. But, accor-
ding to Sankara, all these texts are meant to
set forth the result of a certain inferior know-
ledge only, of the knowledge of the condi-
tioned Brahman. Even in a passage apparently
so entirely incapable of more than one interpre-
tation as Brih-Up-VI-2, 15, the 'True' which
the holy hermits in the forest are said to worship
is not to be the highest Brahman, but only