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1conditions. When he wishes to have a body, he appears with one ; when he wishes to be disembodied, he is without one. For he has various wishes, and all his wishes are realised. — ' As in the case of the twelve days' sacrifice.' As the soma sacrifice extending over twelve days may be viewed either as a sattra or as an ahina sacrifice, because both alternatives are indicated by scriptural passages^; so it is here also. 13. When there is no body, (the process) may take place as in the dreaming state. When there is no body and no sense-organs, the process in the state of release may be viewed as analogous to that in the state of dream, when objects wished, such as a father and so on, have a perceptional existence only while body, senses, and objects do not really exist. 14. When there is (a bod)), (it may be) as in the waking state. When, on the other hand, the released person has a body, then the objects of his wishes — fathers and so on — may have real existence, as in the waking state. 15. The entering (of one soul into several bodies) is like (the multiplication of) the flame of a lamp ; for thus scripture declares.
2Under Sutra 11 it has been shown that the released person is embodied. The question now arises whether the bodies which the released create for themselves when rendering themselves threefold and so on are soulless like wooden figures, or animated by souls like the bodies of us men. — The purvapakshin maintains that as neither the soul nor the manas can be divided they are joined with one body only, while the other bodies are soulless. — To this the Sutrakara replies,' Like the flame of a lamp is their entering,' i. e. just as the one flame of a lamp can pass over into several flames (lighted at the original flame), because it possesses ^ See Purva ^limawsa-suiras II, 3, 5ih adhikara«a. 4 1 4 vedanta-sOtras.
3the power of modifying itself, thus the soul of him who knows, although one only, multiplying itself through its lordly power, enters into all those bodies. For scripture declares that in this way one may become many. ' He is onefold, he is threefold, fivefold, sevenfold' [KJi. Up. VII, 26, 2). And this is not possible, if we should accept the simile of the wooden puppets^ or the entering of other souls into those additional bodies^. Nor again can there be any motion on the part of bodies destitute of souls. — Nor is there any force in the objection that, because the Self and the Manas cannot be divided, they cannot be in connexion with more than one body. For the Self, because possessing the quality of having true wishes (i. e. wishes which become real), may be supposed to create other bodies with internal organs, conformable to the original one organ ; and, the Self dividing itself through the division of its limiting adjuncts, it may be possible to give a soul to each created body. This is the topic which the books on Yoga treat, in the chapters explaining the connexion of one soul with several bodies. — But how can lordly power, enabling the released soul to enter into several bodies, be admitted, if we consider that different scriptural texts declare that the soul in that state has not any specific cognition? so e.g. ' Whereby should he know another ? ' ' For there is then no second, nothing else diiTerent from him that he could know ; ' ' An ocean is that one seer, without any duality ' (Brz. Up. II, 4, 14 ; IV, 3, 30 -, 32).
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1conditions. When he wishes to have a body, he appears with one ; when he wishes to be disembodied, he is without one. For he has various wishes, and all his wishes are realised. — ' As in the case of the twelve days' sacrifice.' As the soma sacrifice extending over twelve days may be viewed either as a sattra or as an ahina sacrifice, because both alternatives are indicated by scriptural passages^; so it is here also. 13. When there is no body, (the process) may take place as in the dreaming state. When there is no body and no sense-organs, the process in the state of release may be viewed as analogous to that in the state of dream, when objects wished, such as a father and so on, have a perceptional existence only while body, senses, and objects do not really exist. 14. When there is (a bod)), (it may be) as in the waking state. When, on the other hand, the released person has a body, then the objects of his wishes — fathers and so on — may have real existence, as in the waking state. 15. The entering (of one soul into several bodies) is like (the multiplication of) the flame of a lamp ; for thus scripture declares.
2Under Sutra 11 it has been shown that the released person is embodied. The question now arises whether the bodies which the released create for themselves when rendering themselves threefold and so on are soulless like wooden figures, or animated by souls like the bodies of us men. — The purvapakshin maintains that as neither the soul nor the manas can be divided they are joined with one body only, while the other bodies are soulless. — To this the Sutrakara replies,' Like the flame of a lamp is their entering,' i. e. just as the one flame of a lamp can pass over into several flames (lighted at the original flame), because it possesses ^ See Purva ^limawsa-suiras II, 3, 5ih adhikara«a. 4 1 4 vedanta-sOtras.
3the power of modifying itself, thus the soul of him who knows, although one only, multiplying itself through its lordly power, enters into all those bodies. For scripture declares that in this way one may become many. ' He is onefold, he is threefold, fivefold, sevenfold' [KJi. Up. VII, 26, 2). And this is not possible, if we should accept the simile of the wooden puppets^ or the entering of other souls into those additional bodies^. Nor again can there be any motion on the part of bodies destitute of souls. — Nor is there any force in the objection that, because the Self and the Manas cannot be divided, they cannot be in connexion with more than one body. For the Self, because possessing the quality of having true wishes (i. e. wishes which become real), may be supposed to create other bodies with internal organs, conformable to the original one organ ; and, the Self dividing itself through the division of its limiting adjuncts, it may be possible to give a soul to each created body. This is the topic which the books on Yoga treat, in the chapters explaining the connexion of one soul with several bodies. — But how can lordly power, enabling the released soul to enter into several bodies, be admitted, if we consider that different scriptural texts declare that the soul in that state has not any specific cognition? so e.g. ' Whereby should he know another ? ' ' For there is then no second, nothing else diiTerent from him that he could know ; ' ' An ocean is that one seer, without any duality ' (Brz. Up. II, 4, 14 ; IV, 3, 30 -, 32).
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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