Karma Kāṇḍa

You'll think about satisfying your intellect, the Manomai and the Vijnanamai.

So then they started observing, okay, what is this? How is it that the sun is rising when it rises? How is it that the rains come in a certain way? Yes, we think of it as Varun, but what is it that is making all of them do their jobs? Then this concept of there is a truth behind, above it, right? So if you see the Rigveda as well, or any of the Vedas for that matter, you have what is the Karmakanda part, which is for the ritual of doing the Yajna.

The Vedas are essentially for doing the Yajna.

for doing that ritual.

yogini is superior not only to mere ascetics, ritualistics but even superior to the Jnanis.

The third category is the Karmibhya, the ritualists or Karmakandans who are performers of Vedic Karmakanda thinking that that is the ultimate

spiritual path.

They represent the tradition of ritual action.

which is mentioned in the 45th verse or the Brahma Samsparsha that karma cannot produce because they are like two mountains can never merge together.

So Brahma Samsparsha cannot be a

result of a Karmakanda.

Therefore the Adhikaha superior in terms of proximity and effectiveness to orientation toward the ultimate goal, Paragati of abiding in Atma is

Jnana Pramana.

but the Veda as a domain of the finite ritual fruits, Karmakanda.

The person who performs Vedic rituals solely to obtain Svarga or worldly prosperity or the progeny etc., operating within the domain of Shabda Brahma.

That is what is Shabda Brahma.

These are the questions which will come into his mind.

Therefore, by the

very nature of what he seeks, he is already operating at a different ontological level than the pure Karmakanda or the ritualistic actions.

The transcendence is therefore teleological by virtue of where one is oriented rather than epistemic by virtue of having

So for that it says Vedavadrata.

So Vedavada is says Karmakanda Vyakhya Dhratha, that start propagating Karmakanda activities from the Vedas.

Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita that the goal of life is just going to heaven, etc.

So he says one should not do that.

Traditionally, 5,000 years ago, scholars put it much later, but it doesn't matter.

At the time when the Bhagavad Gita was composed, and also at the time when, especially at the time when Shankara lived, In India, the philosophical climate was that there was a very strong school of philosophy which he calls Karmakanda.

It is called Karmakanda because these people derive their philosophy from the portions of the Vedas that are dealing with rituals.

Rituals are karmas, and karma kanda, kanda means a portion or a part.

And the Vedas, the ancient scriptures, are divided into three kandas.

There is karma kanda, upasana kanda, and jnana kanda.

Karmakanda is the part of the Vedas that is dealing with rituals.

It includes the Mantra Samhita and Brahmanas.