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thy greatness it is by which all movable and immovable things are pervaded.' This means because all things movable and immovable are pervaded by thee, therefore all this world has thee for its Self, and hence there is none other than thee,' and thus thou being the Self of all art alone real. Such being the doctrine intended to be set forth, the text rightly says, 'this all-pervasiveness of thine is thy greatness'; otherwise it would have to say, 'it is thy error.' Were this latter view intended, words such as
Lord of the world,' 'thou,' &c., could not, moreover, be taken in their direct sense, and there would arise a contradiction with the subject-matter of the entire chapter, viz. the praise of the Holy one who in the form of a mighty boar had uplifted in play the entire earth.-Because this entire world is thy form in so far as it is pervaded as its Self by thee whose true nature is knowledge; therefore those who do not possess that devotion which enables men to view thee as the Self of all, erroneously view this world as consisting only of gods, men, and other beings; this is the purport of the next sloka, 'this which is seen.'-And it is an error not only to view the world which has its real Self in thee as consisting of gods, men, and so on, but also to consider the Selfs whose 'true nature is knowledge as being of the nature of material beings such as gods, men, and the like; this is the meaning of the next sloka, 'this world whose true nature is knowledge.'-Those wise men, on the other hand, who have an insight into the essentially intelligent Self, and whose minds are cleared by devotion the means of apprehending the Holy one as the universal Self- , they view this entire world with all its manifold bodies—the effects of primeval matter-as thy bodya body the Self of which is constituted by knowledge abiding apart from its world-body; this is the meaning of the following sloka : 'But those who possess knowledge, &c. If the different slokas were not interpreted in this way, they would be mere unmeaning reiterations; their constitutive words could not be taken in their primary sense ; and we should come into conflict with the sense of the passages, the subject-matter of the chapter, and the
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