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258 ADVAITA ACCORDING TO THE AIVA SIDDHANTA.
he is freed from all pasa." (Svetas Upanishat ii. 14, 15).
From meditat.
ing Him (abhidhyanath), from joining Him (yojanath), from becoming one
with Him (tatvabhavat), there is further cessation of all Maya in the
end."
(Svetas Upanishat i. 10.)
a flame is enveloped by smoke, as
a mirror by dust, as an embryo is wrapped by the womb, so this (soul)
is
enveloped by it (desire). (Gita iii. 3.)
And St. Me3 T kanclan has this stanza (viii. 3. a.) uGbresRpGin.
The principle of it receives its exposition in the Sankhya and in
the Yoga Satras, by means of this illustration of mirrors and
colours.
"Though it (soul) be unassociated, still there is a tinging
(reflectionally) through non-discrimination ; [for there is not a
real tinge in that which is unassociated (with tincture or any
thing else), still there is as it were a tinge ;
hence the tinge is
treated simply as reflection by those who discriminate the
tinge from the soul which it
delusively seems to belong to].
"As is the case with the Hibiscus and the crystal, there is
not a tinge, but a fancy that there is such," Sankhya
vi. 27-28
Gablie s Translation.
aphorism
In the words of Professor Max Muller, this is how the
Now if we ask what
we are told in Sutra 41, that a man who
subject is treated in the Yoga Sutras :
is the result of all this,
has put an end to all the motions and emotions of his mind,
obtains, with regard to all objects of his senses, conformation
grounded on them, or steadiness and consubstantiation^ the
idea being that the idea is modified or changed by the objects
perceived, ^^ ir<seo <s>jgij
(i. 41). As a crystal when placed
near a red flower, becomes really red to our eyes, in the same
way the mind is tinged by the objects perceived" (Six Systems.
P. 453)-
This principle of mind identifying itself with the objects
perceived, is stated in the following passages of the Upanhhat
also.
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Now a man is like this or that, according as he acts and
according as he behaves, so will he be : a man of good acts will