116 Fe'ddnta-Sara, or Essence of the Veddnta. QNo. 158. 



unconscious thing ; it is not able to manifest many, because it has the 

 quality of indistinctness*. Since it (the special unconsciousness) is the 

 cause of selft, and of other similar attributes, it is the causal organism 

 (of the soul) as it includes all bliss, the case of blessedness, as it rests 

 above all, profound sleep, therefore the place of destruction of the sub- 

 tile and coarse organisms. In that state the supreme ruler and the in- 

 dividual intelligences enjoy by the subtle powers of unconsciousness, 

 which are the manifestations of the soul, (perfect) blessedness. 



" The individual intelligence, which is the same with the soul, en- 

 joys bliss," says the Sruti. 



This is also confirmed by the fact, that one who awakes from 

 sleep, makes the reflection, — Sleeping I was happy, I knew 

 nothing. 



There is no distinction between both the universality and speciality, 

 (of unconsciousness) as there is none between forest and the trees, and 

 water as one thing, and water as many waters. There is no distinction 

 likewise between both, the supreme ruler and the individual intelli- 

 gences, in which that universality and speciality are inherent, as there 

 is none between the sky, which covers the forest and the trees, 

 and between the sky which is reflected by the ocean and by many 

 waters. 



" That Ruler of all," says the Sruti. 



As there is for both the forest and the trees, and the sky, which 

 is attributed to them, as well as the water and the waters, and the 

 sky, reflected by them, another not attributed sky, which is the loca- 

 tion of them, so is for both, the unconsciousness and the soul, in which 

 it (the unconsciousness) is inherent, another soul which is not inherent, 

 and which is called the fourth^. 



"They call him blessed, tranquil, without duality, the fourth," 

 says the Sruti. 



* This indistinctness is produced, according to the Tfka, by the state in which the 

 single soul is placed, viz., in which the first quality, being suppressed by the second 

 and third qualities, cannot be clearly manifest. 



* ^35^* Se,f > more properly what produces self, the notion of egoity, the 

 faculty or power to refer all perceptions and notions to a self, an ego. 



$ This term of the fourth will afterwards be explained. 



