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Mad and idiotic are those who are perpetually enquiring 

 where the deity resides. God dwells in all things in his 

 complete fulness. 



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He who seeks aright the God who dwells in the heart 

 and fixes unalterable faith on Him, he shall attain utter ab- 

 sorption ; he shall be resolved into the universe. 



His creed is in fact Pantheism. He identifies nature or the 

 universe with God and teaches that " as every vessel con- 

 tains a portion of the universe, which after a temporary 

 separation, is reunited to the great whole, so spirits releas- 

 ed from the body are again mingled with the deity 

 B. III. 71. 



Mr. Brown remarks that the following passage in Pope's 

 Essay on Man conveys the precise ideas entertained regard- 

 ing the deity or ruling spirit by those who hold the Ve- 

 dantist creed. 



" All are but parts of one stupendous whole, 

 Whose body nature is, and God the soul ; 

 That, changed in all, and yet in all the same, 

 Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, 

 Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, 

 Glows in the stars and blossoms in the trees ; 

 Lives through all life, extends through all extent, 

 Spreads undivided, operates unspent." 



