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and pain, who can be called neutral-also called Udasina (indifferent). Lastly, the inactivity of the Spirit follows from its being distinguishable' and 'non-productive.'
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(135) Objection. We We grant all this; but in ordinary experience, we first decide, what is to be Objection-Intelli, gence and activity done by us and then think in the following always found costrain- I, who am a sentient being, wishing existent to do a certain act, am going to do it; so that, we find by our experience that sentience.' and 'activity are co-existent in the same person. And this goes against the Sankhya' tenets which make the 'Sentient being inactive and the active agent' insentient.'
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Thus from this union, the insentient
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of the soul due to 'Evolute appears as if sentient'; and union with Buddhi similarly, from the
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and the apparent intelligence of the belonging to the Attributes, the Spirit, latter due to union which is neutral appears as if it were with Purusa
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(136) The sense is that in as much as 'sentience' and 'activity' have been proved by reasons to be differently located, therefore, the feeling referred to by the objector must be a mistake. The word 'Linga Evolute', here stands for everything from the Great Principle primary elements to be described later on. the mistake is said to be the 'union i. e., Spirit with the Evolute. The rest is clear enough.
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