heat. Without deriving its light and heat from
any other thing it is self-luminous, and is an object
of terror to all luminous bodies. The Eternal
One endued with Divinity is beheld by Yogins (by their
mental eye). The body composed of the five grosser
elements, that are themselves sprung from the five
subtler ones,—the latter, in their turn,
originating in one homogeneous substance called Brahman—is
upheld (realised) in consciousness by both the creature-Soul
endued with life and Iswara. (These two, during sleep
and the universal dissolution, are deprived of consciousness).
Brahman on the other hand, which is never bereft of
consciousness, and which is the Sun’s Sun, upholdeth
both these two and also the Earth and the Heaven.
The Eternal One endued with Divinity is beheld by
Yogins (by their mental eye). The Seed upholdeth
the two gods, the Earth and the Heaven, the Directions,
and the whole Universe. It is from that Seed that
directions (points of the compass) and rivers spring,
and the vast seas also have derived their origin.
The Eternal One endued with Divinity is beheld by Yogins
(by their mental eye). The body is like a car
destined to destruction. Its acts, however, are
undying. Tied to the wheels of that car (which
are represented by the acts of past lives), the senses,
that are as steeds, lead, through the region of consciousness,
the man of wisdom towards that Increate and Unchangeable
One, that One endued with Divinity is beheld by Yogins
(by their mental eye). The form of that One cannot
be displayed by any comparison. None ever beholdeth
Him by the eye. They that know him by the rapt
faculties, the mind, and the heart, become freed from
death. The Eternal One endued with Divinity is
beheld by Yogins (by their mental eye). The stream
of illusion is terrible; guarded by the gods, it hath
twelve fruits. Drinking of its waters and beholding
many sweet things in its midst, men swim along it
to and fro. This stream flows from that Seed.
That Eternal One endued with Divinity is beheld by
Yogins (by their mental eye). Destined to sojourn
to and fro, the creature-Soul, having reflected enjoyeth
(in the other world) only half of the fruits of his
acts. It is that creature-Soul which is Iswara,
pervading everything in the universe. It is Iswara
that hath ordained sacrifices. That Eternal One
endued with Divinity is beheld by Yogins (by their
mental eye). Souls divested of accidents, resorting
to Avidya, which is like unto a tree of golden foliage,
assume accidents, and take births in different orders
according to their propensities. That Eternal
One endued with Divinity (in Whom all those Souls
are united) is beheld by Yogins (by their mental eye).
Accidents (which coming in contact with Brahman make
the latter assume many forms) raise the universe in
its Fulness from that Brahman which is full.
Those accidents also, in their Fulness, arise from
Brahman in its Fulness. When one succeeds in
dispelling all accidents from Brahman which is ever