4. And it has been said elsewhere : This body produced from marriage, and endowed with growth in darkness, came forth by the urinary passage, was built up with bones, bedaubed with flesh, thatched with skin, filled with ordure, urine, bile, slime, marrow, fat, oil , and many impurities besides, like a treasury full of treasures .

5. And it has been said elsewhere: Bewilderment, fear, grief, sleep, sloth, carelessness, decay, sorrow, hunger, thirst, niggardliness, wrath, infidelity, ignorance, envy, cruelty , folly, shamelessness, meanness , pride, changeability , these are the results of the quality of darkness (tamah) .

Inward thirst, fondness, passion, covetousness, unkindness, love, hatred, deceit , jealousy, vain restlessness, fickleness , unstableness, emulation, greed, patronising of friends, family pride, aversion to disagreeable objects, devotion to agreeable objects, whispering , prodigality, these are the results of the quality of passion (ragas).

By these he is filled, by these he is overcome, and therefore this elemental Self assumes manifold forms, yes, manifold forms.'

Footnotes

^295:4 The pure Self, called atma, brahma, kinmatram, pragnanaghanam, &c., after entering what he had himself created, and no longer distinguishing himself from the created things (bhuta), is called Bhutatma.

^296:1 M. reads here and afterwards avakam urdhvam va gatidvandvaih.

^296:2 M. adds at the end, paribhramatiti katama esha iti, tan hovaketi, and leaves it out at the end of section 2.

^296:3 M. here reads avara.

^296:4 M. reads tanmatrani.

^296:5 M. reads tesham samudayas takkhariram.

^296:6 The commentator distinguishes between linga-sarira, consisting of pranas, indriyas, the antahkarana, and the sukshmabhutas; and the sthula-sarira, consisting of the five Mahabhutas.

^296:7 M. reads sariram ity uktam.

^296:8 M. reads athasti tasyah bindur iva.

^296:9 It sticks to it, yet it can easily run off again.

^296:10 M. reads Ato, and the commentator explains atho by atah karanat, adding sandhih khandasah.

^296:11 See VI, 30.

^297:1 M. reads aham so mamedam.

^297:2 M. antahkaranaih.

^297:3 See commentary, p. 48, l. 7.

^297:4 AI. reads upety atha trigunam katurgalam.

^297:5 M. reads katurasitilakshayoniparinatam. See also Anubhutiprakasa, ver. 118.

^297:6 Mrityava seems an impossible word, though the commentator twice explains it as kulala, potter. M. reads kakrineti, which seems preferable. Weber conjectures mritpaka.