the “field-knower.” But when it is completely freed from them, it is called the “supreme self.”*

Know that the self is essentially beneficial to the whole world. It abides in the body, like a drop of water on a blue lotus-flower.

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Know that the welfare of the whole world is always the essence of the field-knower, and that darkness, passion and purity are the three states of the soul. They say that the field-knower is sentient, and that the soul is its derivative. It moves and causes everything else to move, hence those that know the “field” say that it created the seven worlds.

The soul is not destroyed when the body breaks up; it is ignorant men who claim, falsely, that it perishes. The soul moves on and finds another body; a person’s death is simply the dissolution of the body. And so it is hidden within all living beings, but its movements are concealed. But those who see the truth can perceive it by means of a refined, subtle intelligence.*

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The wise man who constantly disciplines himself in the earlier and latter periods of the night, who takes little food and remains pure—he see the self within. Through the calming of the mind he abandons his good and bad karma. Being calm, and established in the self, he attains endless bliss.

The fire of consciousness found within all bodies is called the soul. According to this enquiry into the supreme self of a living being, it is the creation of Praja·pati, the Lord of creatures.