THE DEFINITION OF ONE'S OWN SELF.

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Footnotes

^201:* Difference, duality, manifoldness, variety.

^201:+ Avidya, ignorance; asmita, egoism; raga, desire; dvesha, hate; and abhinivesa, fear of death.

^203:* The Supreme Self.

^206:* i.e., Unreal.

^212:* Derivation of meaning is of three kinds: exclusive, inclusive, and partly exclusive and partly inclusive.

^212:+ Which really means "the banks of the Ganges"

^213:* The quality of redness cannot run. The red horse or other animal is meant.

^214:* Between the two indicated by "that" and "thou"

^220:* The karma-kanda.

^220:+ The jnana-kanda.

^222:* Brahman, that is, eternal bliss.

^225:* Because whatever has au artificial origin must have an end.

^226:* This and the first half of the next verse are the view of the mid mimamsaka or ritual school.

^234:* i.e. realisable by the experiences common to all, "I am ", "I know", "I feel" etc,

^238:* Children treat it as an elephant, and the elderly as wood. So the wise see only the supreme self and the ignorant the non-self only.

^239:* As a painter may draw a picture on the back of his hand and enjoy its sight himself.

^248:* Dharma, merit, artha, riches, kama, pleasure and moksha, liberation.

^249:* The four-faced Brahman.

^257:* The eight limbed (or Raja--) Yoga.

^257:+ The eight deities presiding over the eight cardinal points.

^259:* Birth, existence, growth, ripeness, decay, death.

^259:+ Sweet, sour, salt, bitter, pungent and astringent.

^259:++ Skin muscles, blood, nerves, bones and marrow.

^259: section The five elements, the five pranas (vital breaths), the five sensory and the five motor organs, the four aspects of the mind, mahat, kala, (time), pradhana, maya, avidya, purusha, bindu, nada, sakti, siva, santa and atita.

^261:* ###2309### (a) and (ksha) are the first and last letters of the Samskrit alphabet.

^266:* Dakshinamurti, the Lord Siva in the shape of a spiritual teacher.