245:4 The applicability of this simile is not explained by the commentator: it refers possibly to the cropped or shaven heads of the religious students.

245:5 According to the Bhágavata, Jambumárga is the Kálanjara mountain or Kalanjar in Bundelkhand.

246:6 Hirańyagarbha or Brahmá is named here instead of the Yoga doctrine, which is sometimes ascribed to him as its author.

246:7 As a Kála sanyama, a state of suffering or mortification lasting only for a season; or, in other words, bodily existence; the body being contemplated as a sore, for which food is the unguent; drink, the lotion; and dress, the bandage.

246:8 A river in the north of India.

247:9 That is, What have you discerned of me, my body, life, or soul?

247:10 The condition--that is, the personal individuality--of any one is the consequence of his acts; but the same living principle animates him which is common to all living things.

248:11 The body is not the individual; therefore it is not the individual, but the body, or eventually the earth, which bears the burden.

249:12 That is, speech, or any or all of the faculties or senses, is not soul.

249:13 The aggregate limbs and senses no more constitute the individual, than the accidental combination of certain pieces of wood makes the fabric anything else than wood: in like manner as the machine is still timber, so the body is still mere elementary matter. Again; the senses and limbs, considered separately, no more constitute the man, than each individual stick constitutes the umbrella. Whether separate or conjoined, therefore, the parts of the body are mere matter; and as matter does not make up man, they do not constitute an individual.

249:14 T́he term in this and the preceding clause is Pumán; here used generically, there specifically.

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