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whose nature is true) all pervading Chaitanya, which manifests all 

 those principles, is the supreme soul, this is the opinion of those 

 that know the Vedanta. Thus the improper transferring. 



Abstraction (^WT^) is called the action, by which the real thing 

 is acknowledged as the only real thing, after the expanse of the un- 

 real things which commence from the unconsciousness, has been removed 

 from it, as a rope is acknowledged to be a mere rope, when the (notion 

 of the) serpent has been removed from it. In this manner has the 

 place of fruition, viz., the gross body in its fourfold division, the 

 substances which are fit to be enjoyed, as drinking, food, &c, in this 

 manner the place of their support, the earth and the other fourteen 

 worlds, in this manner Bramha's egg (the universe) all this has its 

 existence alone in the gross elements in the combination of five, which 

 are the cause of them. The elements in the combination of five together 

 with the sound and other objects of the gross bodies, all this has its 

 existence alone in the uncombined elements, which are the cause of 

 them. The uncombined five elements together with the three quali- 

 ties (truth, action and darkness ) all this has its existence alone in the 

 soul, in which unconsciousness as its cause, is inherent, further, 

 this unconsciousness and the soul, in which it is inherent and which 

 has the predicates of supreme lord, &c , is merely the fourth Bramha, 

 the uninherent soul, which is the place of support for them. 



The sentence, that* art thou,t becomes by means of both, the im- 

 proper transferring and abstraction explained in its full meaning; 1, 

 the universality of ignorance and what is connected with it ; 2, the soul 

 in which it is inherent and which has the predicates of omniscience, 

 &c ; and 3, the uninherent soul, these three are, like a burning 

 iron-ball, when perceived as one, the literal meaning of the term 

 thai; the uninherent soul, being the place of support, in which the 

 properties of that (universality) are inherent, is the designable (real) 

 meaning of the term, that. These three — 1 , the speciality of ignorance ; 

 2, the soul, in which it inheres ; and which has the quality of igno- 

 rance and other imperfections, and 3, the soul in which this is not 

 inherent, these three like a burning iron-ball, when perceived as 



* The universal soul. 



t Any individual intelligence. 



