The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c6.s6.t2.4
The System of the Vedânta according to Bâdarâyana's Brahma-Sûtras and Çankara's Commentary c6.s6.t2.4
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c6.s6.t2.4
1. Pratardana comes to the abode of Indra, who allows him to choose a boon. Pratardana begs the god to choose for him what he deems to be the best thing for mankind. After some hesitation Indra speaks: "Then know me; for this "I deem to be the best thing for a man, that he should "know me.... Who knows me, his place [in heaven] is not "diminished by any deed, neither by theft nor by slaying the “fruit of the body, nor by matricide nor by parricide; and “even if he has committed (cakrusho) evil [previously, before “the knowledge of Brahman], yet the colour fades not from “his face [no fear makes him pale].”