SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

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144 THE SVETASVATARA UPANISHAT.
mirrors that is, the first law on which this formula is based.
One of the aptest descriptions of a human being
is that he is a
mirror." And our Upanishat contains fortunately
same description and illustration.
the self
As a metal disk (mirror), tarnished by dust, shines bright
again after it has been cleaned, so is the one incarnate person
satisfied and freed from grief, after he has seen the real (pure)
Nature of himself." "And when by the real nature of his sejf,
he sees as by a lamp, the real nature of the Brahman, then
having known the unborn eternal God, who transcends all the
tattvas, he is freed from all fetters (pasa), (ii. 14 & 15). The
first text would simply read, in Drummond s language, "see,
reflect and become God."
It only remains for us now to point
out that the second
verse of the first adhyaya is mistranslated by Roer, Max
Miiller, Mead and others. They
contain terms which are not
known to the systems they are familiar with, and they are alone
preserved in the Siddhanta system. The terms are l Kala?
*
l
3hiita YoniJ Ptirusha, and
SvabhoJ l Niyatii Ichcha,
they are also referred to as { Yonisvabho* &c., in v. 4. and in
vi. i Svabho and Kala.
We stated that the different schools differed in the
enumeration of the tattvas or categories but most of them
stopped with Prakriti or Pradhana and Purusha, the highest
in their list, the 24th and 25th principle (Vide, Sentinathaiyar s
Table of Tattvas, published in Madras 1899), but the Siddhanta
school postulated above this, other tattvas or principles, making
up the whole number into 36. These higher tattvas were,
Ragam (Ichcha) Vidya, Niyati, Kala, Kala, (constituting what
is called the soul s, the purusha s Pancha Kanchukam), Maya,
Suddha Vidya, MahesVara, Sadasiva, Bindhu (or Sakti) r.nd
Nadam (Siva). And the terms used in our text is Kala,
or Ragam, Bhuta or Vidya and
Svabho or Kala, Niyati, Ichcha,
Yoni or Suddha Maya, and Purusha or soul. That our
interpretaticn is genuine we could show by quoting the