Here ends the Fourth Pada of the Third Adhyaya.

इति श्रीमत्कृष्णद्वैपायनकृतब्रह्मसूत्रेषु तृतीयाध्यायस्य चतुर्थः पादः समाप्तः

iti śrīmatkṛṣṇadvaipāyanakṛtabrahmasūtreṣu tṛtīyādhyāyasya caturthaḥ pādaḥ samāptaḥ

Here ends the Fourth Pada of the Third Adhyaya.

iti śrī-vedānta-sūtra-govinda-bhāṣye tṛtīyo’dhyāyaḥ

Here ends the Third Adhyaya of the Vedanta Sutras and the Govinda Bhashya.

 

॥इति तृतीयोऽध्यायः॥

.. iti tṛtīyo’dhyāyaḥ..

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॥अथ चतुर्थोऽध्यायः॥

FOURTH ADHYAYA

.. atha caturtho’dhyāyaḥ..

॥प्रथमः पादः॥

First Pada

.. prathamaḥ pādaḥ ..

He who giving the medicine of Vidya to His devotees, makes them free from disease may that Self of Joy, Hari Himself, come within the scope of my vision.

 

This Adhyaya deals with a discussion as to the fruits of Vidya or Divine Wisdom. Though in some of the Sutras in the beginning, the subject dealt with is Sadhana or means of knowledge or practice, yet as the main topic is that of the Results of Vidya, it is called the Phala Adhyaya.

Vishaya: In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, (IV., 5. 6) it is said:

Verily, the Self is to be seen, to be heard, to be constantly thought over, to be meditated upon, O Maitreya! When the Self has been seen, heard, thought over, and meditated upon, then all this is known.

Doubt: Now arises the doubt: Should the practices called here Havana (hearing), Manana (thinking), etc., be performed once only, or must they be repeated?

Purvapaksha: The opponent says. They must be performed once only. For as the sacrifices, called Agnishtoma, etc., performed once only, lead to heaven (Svarga), etc., so the performance of Shravana, Manana, etc., once only gives the vision of the Self. Therefore, these spiritual exercises need not be repeated.

Siddhanta: The right view, however, is given in the next Sutra.

SUTRA IV. 1. 1.

 

आवृत्तिः असकृदुपदेशात्॥४.१.१॥