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rain, but an idolising, in poetical garb, of the most essential element for salvation, as is clear from such texts as rite jnanan na
mukti (no salvation without knowledge). . Having offered our obeisance to the divinity of Widom, we shall now proceed to study the scheme of the Vedic gods. As Sayana, the most distinguished of the Vedic commentators, says, there are three principal gods that are really reducible to one in the Vedas. These are Surya, Indra and Agni, who have been grossly misunderstood by one and all in modern times,
Now, in order to understand their nature fully it is necessary to bear in mind the scientific truths estaba lished by us in an earlier lecture, I shall summarise them for facility of reference once more.
(i) The soul is a substance which is endowed
with potential Omniscience, that is to say which will be omniscient but for the clogg.
ing impurities adhering to it. (ii) The impure soul is constantly engaged in
traffic with the outside world through the door ways of the senses, and undergoing
metempsychosis, (iii) The means to the attainment of divinity and
perfection is tapas (severe self-denial, ze,
asceticism), In other words, every soul is a paramåtman (God) in potency ; it is however a jivátman (unredeemed or
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