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322-324.

bound to chastity, ii, 295.

— works are co-operative for the origination ofk., but not for the fruits of, ii, 313.

— also persons ' standing between,'

i. e. not belonging to one or other of the stages of life, are qualified for, ii, 315 seq.

— works if joined with k. may effect final release, ii, 359.

— higher and lower, distinguished by 5ahkara, i, pp. xxxi, Ixxviii, i37seqq. ; this distinction not valid, i, pp. Ixxxviii-xci. not distinguished by Ramanu^a, i, pp. xxxi, Ixxviii seq. not distinguished by Badaraya«a, i, pp. c, ci. not distinguished in the

seq.

— the lower, departure of the soul of him who possesses, i, p. Ixxix ; ii, 364-404.

— — the greater part of the

with, i, p. ci. comprises the i?/g-veda and so on, i, 137, 138. leads to mere worldly exaltation, the higher to absolute bliss, i, 138. he who possesses it obtains lordly power and cessation of all sin, ii, 355.

— the highest, the fate of the soul of him who has reached it, i, p. Ixxx seq.; ii, 372-377is this by which the Indestructible is apprehended, i, 135, 137 seq.

— true (or perfect, or k. of the highest Self), thepractical world, perception, &c., vanishes in the sphere of, i, 135, 281; ii, 340, 400.

is irrefutable, i, 282.

cannot be founded on reasoning, i, 316 seq.

rests on the Veda, i, 317.

as long as it is not reached, 2the ordinary course of secular and religious activity holds on undisturbed, i, 324.

injunctions and prohibitions

do not refer to him who has obtained, ii, 67.

Knowledge, true, will spring up of itself, it cannot be enjoined, ii, 163, 164 seq.

has pious meditation for its antecedent, ii, 205.

there is no difference in it as there is between works, ii, 330.

there can be no successive stages in it, ii, 336.

when t. k. springs up, Scripture ceases to be valid, ii, 340.

it is impossible for any one who has not reached t. k. to refrain altogether, from birth to death, from all actions, ii, 399.

a man dying in the possession of t. k. shakes off his good and evi! deeds, i, p. Ixx; ii, 119, 225229, 230, 294 seq., 357 seq.

even beings who have reached t. k. may retain a body for the discharge of certain offices, i, p. Ixxii ; ii, 235-238.

in all cases brings about its fruit, viz, final release, i, 229; ii, 235-238.

by means of it, there is effected the Selfs dissociation from the matras, i, 281.

is the door to perfect beatitude, i, 283.

• Smr/tis composed with reference to t. k. as the means of final release, i, 291.

is not purposeless, ii, 64, the accomplishment of man's highest end by means of t. k., the different injunctions as to the means of t. k., and the absence of certain rules as to release which is the fruit of, ii, loi, 285-330.

for those who have risen to 3t. k. it would be purposeless to proceed on the path of the gods, ii, 232.

completely destroys the potentiality of action, ii, 237.

— • — alone effects the purpose of man, ii, 285, 290-306.

its fruit, being present to intuition, does not manifest itself at a later time only, as the fruits of actions do, ii, 294. Knowledge, true, he who possesses t. k. cannot be born again, ii,

369 seq., 419. is the door of release, ii, 370,

371, 400.

— - — owing to the power of t. k.

the soul departs through the hundred and first vein, ii, 377 seq.

through t. k. the expanse of names and forms which Nescience superimposes on Brahman is dissolved, ii, 401.

see also Brahman, knowledge of, p. 449.

see also Self, knowledge of the.

— (vidya) of the pra«a, ii, 186 seq.

— of Brahman's couch, ii, 400.

— of Brahman within the heart, ii,

410. See also Daharavidya.

— of Agni Vaijvanara. See Vaijvanara-vidya.

— of the five fires. See Fires.

— of the udgitha. See Udgithavidya. Yirikkhvd. penance, prescribed for hermits and mendicants who

was born again as, ii, 235. KuWapayins, the ayana of the, a great sacrifice lasting a whole year, ii, 250, 250 n., 251, 314.

Legends recorded in the Vedantatexts have the purpose of glorifying (as arthavadas) the injunctions with which they are connected, i, p. Ixxv; ii, 305 seq.