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V-8: Subtle as the point of a goad, and pure, effulgent and infinite like the sun, He alone is
seen assuming as another the size of a thumb on account of the finiteness of the heart (in
which He appears), and associating Himself with egoism and Sankalpa on account of the
limitations of the intellect.
V-9:That individual soul is as subtle as a hairpoint divided and sub-divided hundreds of
times. Yet he is potentially infinite. He has to be known.
V-10: He is neither female, nor male, nor neuter. Whatever body he assumes, he becomes
identified with that.
V-11: By desire, contact, sight and delusion, the embodied soul assumes successively various
forms in various places according to his deeds, just as the body grows nourished by showers of
food and drink.
V-12: The embodied self chooses many forms, gross and subtle, based on the qualities
belonging to himself, to the actions, and to the mind. The cause of their combination is found
to be still another.
V-13: Realizing Him who is without beginning or end, who creates the cosmos in the midst of
chaos, who assumes many forms, and who alone envelops everything, one becomes free from
all fetters.
V-14: That Supreme Divinity who created both Life and Matter, who is the source of all arts
and sciences, who can be intuited by a pure and devoted mind realizing Him, the blissful the
incorporeal and the nameless, one is freed from further embodiment.
VI-1: Some deluded thinkers speak of Nature, and others of time, as the force that revolves
this wheel of Brahman. But really all this is only the glory of God manifested in the world.
VI-2: It should be known that energy assumes various forms such as earth, water, light, air
and ether at the command of Him who is the master of Gunas and the maker of time, who is
omniscient, who is Pure consciousness itself, and by whom all this is ever enveloped.
VI-3: After setting the creation in motion and withdrawing Himself from it, He unites the
principle of Spirit with the principle of Matter with one, with two, with three and with eight
through the mere instrumentality of time and their own inherent properties.
VI-4: He gives the start to the creation associated with the three Gunas of Nature, and others
all things. Again, in the absence of the Gunas, He destroys all created objects, and after
destruction, remains aloof in His essence.
VI-5: By previously meditating as seated in one s own heart, on that Adorable Being who
appears as the universe, and who is the true source of all creatures, He can be perceived even
though He is the primeval cause of the union (of Spirit with Matter), as well as the partless
entity transcending the three divisions of time.
VI-6: Knowing Him who is the origin and dissolution of the universe the source of all virtue,
the destroyer of all sins, the master of all good qualities, the immortal, and the abode of the
universe as seated in one s own self, He is perceived as different from, and transcending, the
tree of Samsara as well as time and form.
VI-7: May we realize Him the transcendent and adorable master of the universe who is the
supreme lord over all the lords, the supreme God above all the gods, and the supreme ruler
over all the rulers.
VI-8: His has nothing to achieve for Himself, nor has He any organ of action. No one is seen
equal or superior to Him. His great power alone is described in the Vedas to be of various
kinds, and His knowledge, strength and action are described as inherent in Him.
VI-9: No one in the world is His master, nor has anybody any control over Him. There is no
sign by which He can be inferred. He is the cause of all, and the ruler of individual souls. He
has no parent, nor is there any one who is His lord.
VI-10: May the Supreme Being, who spontaneously covers Himself with the products of
Nature, just as a spider does with the threads drawn from its own navel, grant us absorption
in Brahman !
VI-11: God, who is one only, is hidden in all beings. He is all-pervading, and is the inner self of
all creatures. He presides over all actions, and all beings reside in Him. He is the witness, and
He is the Pure Consciousness free from the three Gunas of Nature.
VI-12: Those wise men, who ever feel in their own hearts the presence of Him who is the one
ruler of the inactive many, and who makes the one seed manifold to them belongs eternal
happiness, and to none else.
VI-13: He is the eternal among the eternal and the intelligent among all that are intelligent.
Though one, He grants the desires of the many. One is released from all fetters on realizing
Him, the cause of all, who is comprehensible through philosophy and religious discipline.
VI-14: The sun does not shine there; neither the moon, nor the stars. There these lightnings
shine not how then this fire ? Because He shines, everything shines after Him. By His light
all this shines.
VI-15: The one destroyer of ignorance in the midst of this universe, He alone is the fire which
is stationed in water. Realizing Him alone one overcomes death. There is no other path for
emancipation.
VI-16: He is the creator of everything as well as the knower of everything. He is His own
source, He is all-knowing, and He is the destroyer of time. He is the repository of all good
qualities, and the master of all sciences. He is the controller of Matter and Spirit, and the lord
of the Gunas. He is the cause of liberation from the cycle of birth and death, and of bondage
which results in its continuance.
VI-17: He is the soul of the universe, He is immortal, and His is the rulership. He is the all
knowing, the all-pervading, the protector of the universe, the eternal ruler. None else is there
efficient to govern the world eternally.
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