Śaṅkaraon Brahma Sūtra 3.3.60
Advaita Vedānta
Sūtra
काम्यास्तु यथाकामं समुच्चीयेरन् न वा पूर्वहेत्वभावात्
kāmyāstu yathākāmaṃ samuccīyeran na vā pūrvahetvabhāvāt
Sūtra translation
But (vidyas) connected with wishes may, according to one’s liking, be cumulated or not ; on account of the a1)sence of the former reason.
The above Sutra supplies a counter-instance to the preceding Sutra. —We have, on the other hand, vidyas connected with definite wishes ; as e. g. Ill, 15, 2, ‘ He who knows that the wind is the child of the regions never weeps for his sons;’ Kh, Up. VII, i, ,5, ‘ He who meditates on name as Brahman, walks at will as far as name reaches.’ In these vidyas which, like actions, effect their own special results by means of their ‘ unseen ’ Self, there is no reference to any intuition, and one therefore may, according to one’s liking, cither cumulate them or not cumulate them ; ‘ on account of the absence of the former reason,’ i. e. because there is not the reason for option which was stated in the preceding Sfitra.