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the individual intelligent soul. ' This being, who is seen in the eye, is the 

 se\i\dtma7i) : He is immortal, fearless Brahme. Though liquid grease, or 

 water, be dropped therein, it passes to the corners (leaving the eye-ball un- 

 defiled). 



So, in a dialogue, in which Yajnyawalcta instructs Uddalaca,* "the 

 internal check" (^antarycimbi) is the supreme being ; and not the individual 

 soul, nor the material cause of the world, nor a subordinate deity, the 

 conscious informing regent of the earth, nor a saint possessing transcendent 

 power : where premising, ' he who internally restrains (or governs) this and 

 the other world, and all beings therein,' the instructor goes on to say : ' who 

 standing in the earth is other than the earth, whom the earth knows not, 

 whose body the earth is, who interiorly restrains (and governs) the earth : 

 the same is thy soul (and mine), the " internal check" (^antari/dmin'), 

 immortal, &c.' 



Again, in another dialogue, Angiuas, in answer to Mahasala, who with 

 Saunaca visited him for instruction, declares • there are two sciences, one 

 termed inferior, the other superior. The inferior comprises the four vedas, 

 with their appendages, grammar, &c.' (all of which he enumerates) : ' but 

 the superior (or best and most beneficial) is that by which the unalterable 

 (being) is comprehended, who is invisible (imperceptible by organs of 

 sense), ungrasped (not prehensible by organs of action), come of no race, 

 belonging to no tribe, devoid of eye, ear (or other sensitive organ), destitute 

 of hand, foot (or other instrument of action), everlasting lord, present 

 every where, yet most minute. Him, invariable, the wise contemplate as 

 the source (or cause) of beings. As the spider puts forth and di'aws in his 

 thread, as plants spring from the earth (and return to it), as hair of the 

 head and body grows from the living man, so does the universe come of the 



unalterable ' Here it is the supreme being, not nature or a material 



cause, nor an embodied individual soul, who is the invisible {adrc^ya) un- 

 grasped source of (all) beings (bhuta-ymi). 



In a dialogue between several interlocutors, Prachi'nasala, Uddalaca, and 

 As'wAPATi, king of the Caiceyis, (of which a version at length was inserted in 

 an essay on the vedas. As. Res. vol. viii. p. 446\ the terms vaistvanara and 

 dtman occur (there translated universal soul). The ordinary acceptation of 



• Vrihnil aran'yam, .5. Br. Sutr. 1. 2. § 5. (S. 18, 20.) 



f Miiii'd'aca, ail upanishad o{ the At'harvana. Dr. Sutr. 1. 2. § 6. (S. 21, 23.) 



