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Besides, a thing can be said to have been born of another, if with the expansion of one, the other expands. As for instance, if the quantity of earth is greater, the pot becomes larger, and hence it is believed that the pot is produced from the earth, but in case of the body and caitanya, such is neve. the experience; because fishes of immeasurable length have very little knowledge while human beings with short bodies have great knowledge. In this way, it can never be proved that knowledge is born of the body, which is an assemblage of elements. Therefore, it should be believed that knowledge is not produced from the body but it is produced from another substance quite apart from it; and that substance is Ātmā or Soul.
O Indrabhūtil it has, thus, been proved beyond doubt hy means of Vedic hymns like fagasta etc and with the help of apparent proofs that Atma or Soul does exist.
Besides, क्षीरे घृतं, तिले तैलं, काष्टेऽग्निः सौरभं सुमे । चन्द्रकान्ते सुधा यत्, तथा आत्माऽजगतः पृथक् ॥ १॥ Kşiré ghritam, tilé tailam, kasté' gnih saurabham sumé Candra-kāntė sudha yadvat, tathā'tmā angagatah prithak 1.
1 Just as, ghee remains in milk, oil remains in sesamum seeds, fire remains in wood, fragrance remains in a flower, and just as, nectar remains in candra-kānta stone, in the same way, the Ātma-the Soul-though separate from the body, resides in it.
In this way, on hearing the words of the Lord, the doubt of Indrabhûti Gautama regarding the existence of sila Jiva or
AT Ātmā-the Soul, disappeared, and now he could realise that Ātma does exist. His doust having, thus, gone, Sri Indrabhuti Gaulama accompanied by his five hundred pupils accepted Dikṣā from the Lord at that very moment.
Then hearing the "ripadi -the three laws-from the mouth of the great Lord, that, every matter is produced as the present
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