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action" are evolved. These are the mouth, the feet, 



the hands, and the excretory organs. 

 3°. Puthdthi — ahanf/dram, wherefrom the five rudimental 



elements are evolved. These are Sound, Touch, Form, 



Taste, Smell ; — these are called Tanmdttirei. 

 From Sound is evolved ether ; from Touch, air; from Form, 

 fire ; from Taste, water ; from Smell, earth. 



These are the essential items that make up man, and from 

 these above enumerated Tattuvams, many other subsidiary 

 ones are developed to make up the 96 Tattuvams. This part 

 of the Sdiva Sidddntam often proves difficult to many, and an 

 incipient Hindu philosopher devotes the first months of his 

 study to an investigation of it. 



The intelligent and active state of the soul is called Sdk- 

 Mr am, when all the 96 Tattuvams are in full vigor and play, 

 and when the soul takes its seat in the forehead between the 

 eyebrows. Soppanam is the state when a man is asleep. 

 Here all but twenty-four of the Tattuvams are lulled into 

 inactivity, and the soul descends to a seat in the neck. It 

 experiences here only what it had seen in Sdkkiram. This is 

 the phenomenon of dreams. Sidutti is the stage below Sop- 

 panam. Here the soul exists in the heart in company with 

 only two Tattuvams — the will and the vital principle. The 

 soul is incapable of distinguishing any thing here. From this, 

 the soul drops down into the navel, and exists in the state 

 called Turiyam/m union with the vital principle alone. Here 

 it ceases to think. Next below is the Turiydthitham, where 

 the soul descends deprived of even the vital principle. This 

 is Death, 



The polar star of life is then, according to this Philosophy, 

 the deliverance of the Pasu from the Pdsam. But Pasu soon 

 loses sight of this object. The soul once set in motion in the 

 human organism revolves on from life to death— from death 



