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repulsion and without attachment ; what goes from him he allows to depart into the whirl of things without re- pining or grief or sense of loss. His heart and self are under perfect control ; they are free from reaction and passion, they make no turbulent response to the touches of outward things. His action is indeed a purely physi- cal action, gariram kevalam karma; for all else comes from above, is not generated on the human plane, is only a reflection of the will, knowledge, joy of the divine Purushottama. Therefore he does not by a stress on doing and its objects bring about in his mind and heart any of those reactions which we call passion and sin. For sin consists not at all in the out- ward deed, but in an impure reaction of the personal will, mind and heart which accompanies it or causes it ; the impersonal, the spiritual is always pure, apdpavid- dham, and gives to all that it does its own inalienable purity. This spiritual impersonality is a. third sign of the divine worker. All human souls, indeed, who have attained to a certain greatness and largeness are cons- cious of an impersonal Force or Love or Will and Knowledge working through them, but they are not free from egoistic reactions, sometimes violent enowgh, of their human personality. But this freedom the liberated soul has attained ; for he has cast his persona- lity into the impersonal, where it is no longer his, but is taken up by the divine Person, the Purushottama, who uses all finite qualities infinitely and freely and is bound by none. He has become a soul and ceased to be a sum of natural qualities ; and such appearance of persona- lity as remain for the operations of Nature, is something unbound, large, flexible, universal ; itisa free mould for the Infinite, it is a living mask of the Purushottama,