SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

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THE ANALOGIES IN THE GITA. 165
body in xiii, 31. Even so far as forms of expression go, they
are not altogether the same, thing. It may be noted that the
expression embodied is
always used in describing the soul,
Jiva, and never to denote God. Though God is seated in the
hearts of all, He is the Soul of Souls, and Light of Lights. He
can never be called the k embodiedJ The expression embodied
conveys itself the idea of attachment and bondage. Anybody
reading verses 36 to 40 of chapter iii, and xiii, 21 ; xiv, 5, 20;
arad, verses iv, 14; ix, 9; xiii, 31 together, can fail to observe
the utter contrast of the two entities ;
and we appeal to
common sense if Sankara s as it were will do away with
this distinction and contrast. This distinction and contrast
is
brought out in different chapters, in the same chapter
and in contiguous verses, (xv, 16, 17, 18) nay in the same
verse (v. 15).
The word another Anyatha* is itself a
technical word, as the inside of Ant as &c., and occurs
in the Gita in other places and in a number of Vedic texts
to denote God Supreme as distinguished from the souls
and the world, the entities admitted by Kapila Sankhyas.
Adhikaranas 4 to 9 of the Vedanta Sutra, and the texts quoted
therein which appear in Vol. II, S.D. pp. 73 to 79, fully bear out
our thesis. The apparent confusion caused by both the human
spirit and the Supreme Spirit being spoken of as dwelling in
the human body is altogether removed by the Mantras which
speak of the two birds entering into the cave, Rudra,
destroyer of pain enters into me, He who abides in the
V-iJHdnaS He who abides in the Atman* higher than the high,
higher than the imperishable, (cf. xv, 18, Gita). Leaving this
subject for the present, we proceed. Chapter iv contains also
only one simile, (37) ; "As kindled fire reduces fuel to ashes, O
Arjuna; so does the wisdom fire reduce all Karma to ashes."
The next illustration occurs in chapter v. 16, and is a very
familiar one, that of Sun and darkness. But in those in whom
unwisdom is
destroyed by the Wisdom of the Self, like the Sun
the Wisdom illuminates That Supreme."
We have to read the
previous passage together. "The Lord takes neither the evil