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by reason of its manifesting itself as it does through the other, the media of the organism and the senses, becomes, as it were, the object of introspection as well as of the connotation of the 1 and thereby appears as the Jiva, the doer of deeds and enjoyer of the fruits of thereof. It is due to this subreption that the self-same spirit appears both as the agent and enjoyer as well as the object of the connotation of the 1. Or course to be the agent or enjoyer of something, the self must have the energy to work and enjoy, and it might be contended that it is impossible with self, because of its being of the nature of pure consciousness to be as such. True as these energies are inherent in the mind-stuff which is bereft of intelligence and intellectuality : but it must be understood that in the combination by subreption of the self and the other, into an organic whole, the self-same spirit acquires somehow the energies to work as well as to enjoy the fruits thereof and appear as the fiva.
But some will however remark that this is but arguing in a circle. For, to say that
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