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THE PHILOSOPHY OF ISEVARA
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That projected heat.' -'Brahman, 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, Ishậna.'-'Atman, indeed, existed alone in the beginning; nothing else vibrated ; He thought of projecting the world; He projected the world after.'-'Alone Nârâyana existed; neither Brahmâ nor Ishậna, nor the Dyâvâ-Prithivi, nor the stars, nor water, nor fire, nor Soma nor the Sun. He did not take pleasure alone. He after His meditation had one daughter, the ten organs, etc.,' and in others as,—'Who living in the earth is separate from the earth, who living in the Atman, etc.,' the Srutis speak of the Supreme One as the subject of the work of ruling the universe ... Nor in these descriptions of the ruling of the universe is there any position for the liberated soul, by which such a soul may have the ruling of the universe ascribed to it.” In explaining the next Sutra, Ramanuja says, “If you say it is not so, because there are direct texts in the Vedas in evidence to the contrary, these texts refer to the glory of the liberated in the spheres of the subordinate deities.” This also is an easy solution of the difficulty. Although the system of Ramanuja admits the unity of the total, within that totality of existence there are, according to him, eternal differences. Therefore, for all practical purposes, this system also being dualistic, it was easy for Ramanuja to keep the dis
