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is due the ability to traverse the solar regions by means of the sun's rays. (3) Garimā, 'Gravity' leads to heaviness; and (4) Mahimā, 'Grandeur' brings greatness. (5) Prāpti, * Approach is the ability to touch the moon with the fingers. (6) Prākāmya, Fulfilment of desires, is such as can enable one to dip into the earth and rise again as in water. (7) Vas'ıtva, 'supremacy'-by this all matter and material things come under one's control; this differs from 'Ts'itva' 'sovereignity', which consits in the power to create and maintain matter and material things. (8) Kāmāvasāyıtā, Infallıbility of purpose is that by which all objects follow the course dictated by the will of the person. The decisions of ordinary inortals follow the course of events, where as those of the trained devotee precede them and dictate their course.'
(148) These four are the properties of Buddhı, abounding in the Sattva-Attribute. Those abounding in the Tamasattribute are the reverse of these-vis., Vice, Ignorance, Passion and Weakness.
The author next defines Ahankāra-the ‘l-Principle —
Kārikā XXIV The 'T-Principle' is self-consciousness; from that The principle of proceeds a two-fold evolution-the set of Ahankara defined. Its effects
"eleven and the five rudimentary sub
stances. (149) “The I principle is egotism" and this 'l-principle' is perceptible in such ideas as— “To what I have observed and thought of I am entitled, --'I am able to do this —'all these things are for my use'—'there is no one else entitled to it'herce I am;"-the egotism involved in all such notions forms the characteristic function of the 'I-principle :it is through this principle that the Will performs its deter
