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THE THREE PURUSHAS
a miracle or with the careful and laboured evolution in which every step is visibly ordered and deliberate; but so long as the jiva is bound, his lordship is limited and constitutional, not despotic and absolute. His sanction and signature are necessary, but it is the Lords spiritual and temporal of his mind and body, the Commons in his external environment who do the work of the State, execute, administer, legislate.
The first step in self-liberation is to get rid of the illusion of agency, to realise that Nature acts, not the soul. The second is to remove the siege of phenomenal associations, by surrendering lordship to God, leaving Him alone to uphold and sanction by the abdication of one's own independent use of these powers, offering up the privilege of the enjoyer to Him. All that is then left is the attitude of the akshara purusha, the free, blissful selfexistence watching the action of Prakriti, but outside .it. The kshara withdraws into the akshara. When the sakshi or
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