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which the opposition of equality and inequality arises. But the moment the spirit takes cognizance of and deals with the multiplicities, personalities, differences, inequa- lities of the action of Nature, it has to effectuate these other signs of its free status by this one manifesting sign of equality. Knowledge is the consciousness of unity with the One; and in relation with the many different beings and existences of the universe it must show itself by an equal oneness with all. Impersonality is the one immutable spirit’s superiority to the variations of its multiple personality in the world ; in its dealings with the personalities of the universe it must show it- self in the equal and impartial spirit of its action with regard to all, however various that action may be made by the variety of relations into which it is moulded or of the conditions under which it has to take place, So Krishna in the Gita says that none is dear to him, none hated, to all he is equal in spirit; yet is the God- lover the special receiver of his grace, because the rela- tion he has created is different and the one impartial Lord of all yet meets each soul according to its way of approach to him. Desirelessness is the illimitable spirit’s , superiority to the limiting attraction of the separate objects of desire in the world ; when it has to enter into relations with those objects, it must show it either by ansequal and impartial indifference in their possession or by an equal and impartial unattached delight in all and love for all which, because it is self- existent, does not depend upon possession or non-pos- session, but is in its essence unperturbed and immutable. For the spirit’s bliss is in itself, and if this bliss is to enter into relations with things and creatures, it is only in this way that it can manifest its free spirituality-