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seventh principle, while in the second state, i. e., of Samipata, it is fully overshadowed by the latter. It is in the Sayujata state only that it is fully merged into its Logos to be thrown again into re-incarnation when it has fully enjoyed the effects of the spiritual aspirations created by it. It is only very highly spiritualised entities that reach this highest state of Devachan. Of course, the cases of adepts are here entirely left out of consideration, for as the Bhagavat Gita says, the Gnyani reaches that state from which there is no re-birth and which is called Moksha or Mukti. The period of gestation between the Devachanic condition and the physical re-birth may be called the eighth state; but in the Hindu books the physical life being the basis of the seven after-states is not included in the category of the Sapta higher lokas, just as in the septenary principles, Parabrahma is not taken into account for the very same reason. From the subjective stand-point, the Parabrahman, and from the objective stand-point the Sthulasariram, are not included in the septenary division, as the former is the basis upon which the whole structure is built.
NADIGRANTHAMS AND THEIR INTERPRETERS.
For some time past I have been hearing of Nadigranthams and their predictions. But the reports that reached me from various quarters regarding these marvellous books and the answers diocovered therein to a variety of questions put by different people, gave me little or no information regarding their real origin and the plan on which they were constructed. Some said that they were written by Brahma himself, while others attributed their authorship to Vyasa; a third account says that they were written by the presiding deities of the various planets by whose names they are called, while those that have no connection with individual planets are supposed to be the production of a variety of authors, human and divine. Putting together all the various accounts received, it appears there are fifteen different kinds of Nadigranthams:—viz. (1) Suryanadi, (2) Chandranadi, (3) Kujanadi, (4) Budhanadi, (5)
