Brahma Sūtra 4.1.2

Śaṅkara

Advaita Vedānta

Sūtra

लिङ्गाच्च

liṅgācca

Sūtra translation

And on account of an indicatory mark.

An indicatory mark also gives to understand that repetition is required. For, in the section treating of meditation on the udgitha, the text rejects

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Rāmānuja

Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

लिङ्गाच्च

liṅgācca

Sūtra translation

And on account of an inferential mark.

Inferential mark here means Smriti. Smriti also declares that that knowledge which effects Release is of the nature of continued representation. Meditation therefore has

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Madhva

Dvaita Vedānta

Sūtra

लिंगाच्च

liṃgācca

Sūtra translation

And on account of the indicatory circumstance.

For the following and the like passages also indicate the necessity for repeated meditation, etc. “He (Bhrigu) performed the meditation ..and again ap- proached

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