Book Title: Karma Yoga
Author(s): Swami Vivekanand
Publisher: Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture Culcutta

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________________ THE PHILOSOPHY OF ISVARA. 21 be applicable, for it defines Brahman, through this very quality of rulership of the universe. The uncommon qualities alone are stated in a definition as in the following texts of the Vedas : “My beloved boy! alone, in the beginning, there existed the One without a second. That saw and felt I will give birth to the many. That projected heat.'-Brakman, indeed, alone existed in the beginning. That One evolved. That projected a blessed form, the Kshatra. All these gods are Kshatras : Varuna, Soma, Rudra, Parjanya, Yama, Mrityu, Isána.'--'Atman, indeed, existed alone in the beginning ; nothing else vibrated ; He, saw and felt like projecting the worlds. He projected the worlds afterwards'—'Alone Narayana existed ; neither Brahmá nor Isána, nor the Dyava-Prithvi, nor the stars, nor water, nor fire, nor Soma nor the Sun. He did not take pleasure in being alone. He after His meditation had one daughter, the ten organs.'—'Who living

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