kot the abode of liberation, Nor is the second alternative that is (that it means that) through secondary significance acceptablebecause the primary significance has nothing to contradict it. If there can be anything to contradict it, what is it? (i) is it the inention of the absence of old age, death, the attainment of immortality etc. , stated in the text of the question (prac&a•waky) ot (ii) (is it) the crossing over old age etc., contained in the reply or (iii) (is it) the transitory
- str ge' that cannot be asked by Naciketas who is indifferent
to ki worldly desires ?
Not the first (alternative, because the word acrg@ which precedes (the word birdin the sentence which cannot be explained otherwise and signifies the principal (vies४w) of the sentence, cannot be interpreted according to the word " arta + immortal) which is well-known in Vedic and worldly usages as signifying relative im. mortality and which stands at the concluding part of the passage; because in the Purflic contexts explaining the nature of the source, it is seen that those that dwell in the word of starge are free from old agedeath, age, thirst, sorrow etc.; because there is the Sri (passage"Iamortality is spoken of as existence till deluge (Arctic"; because in this pagisad itself the word immortal' is used is epect of Death it the passage " Having approached those that do not grow old and that are immortal " {K.J. H. i. 23); and because the staternent (passage) that they whose world in का और attain immortality" can be explained as stated in (the passages) " Whese in the world of Brahaman at the time Af inl departure." (Tait, Nar) and " Those that live in the word of sure can attain immortality through meditatioa se Brah . Ran "(e. J, E, i. 6).
Not the second alternative), because the plang Trivati Beta... ...(K. U.i. i, 17) inay be taken to mean "that the re (Waxisthat leads to says (Heaven) performed thrice is the men to the Brahm-Knowledge that helps the reasod over Hiri and deeast, and that it need not be ha states
