In fact, that section of the MB, after showing pAncharAtra is alone adherent to the Veda, goes one step further and declares that yoga, sAnkhya and pAShupata are only as valid as they have nArAyaNa as their basis! Vide+
https://twitter.com/DefiledGod/status/1325437094513160192
yathāgamaṃ yathā jñānaṃ niṣṭhā nārāyaṇaḥ prabhuḥ na cainam evaṃ jānanti tamo bhūtā viśāṃ pate+
[(In Yoga, sAnkhya and pAShupata), in accordance to tradition & aids to knowledge like logic, the ground or basis (for these systems) is the Supreme Lord, Nārāyaṇa. Those who are deluded by the darkness of ignorance brought on by beginningless karmas do not understand him]+
The implication is simple. The meditative techniques of the yoga system are valid in so much as the the Atma as the goal. That Atma has nArAyaNa as the inner self. The sAnkhyAs elaborate the tattvas of prakrti which again has nArAyaNa as antaryAmin.+
The pAShupata system worships Shiva, the Pati, who again has nArAyaNa as the inner self.+
Thus, these systems are criticized in so much as they do not realize that nArAyaNa is the ground of these systems. But the realities they advocate - viz., yoga, prakrti tattvas and Lord paShupati, are not denied -- merely understood to be ultimately lead to nArAyaNa.//
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