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OUTLINES OF HINDU METAPHYSICS. CHAPTER I. THE DIVINE BEING: HIS TRUE NATURE. . HINDU RISHIS have always meditated on their Brahma or Supreme Deity in His two aspects, namely the Saguna or immanent, and the Nirguna or transcendent. The entire universe is resolvable into two factors, viz., Nature and God. By the former may be un- derstood the "totality of perceptible pheno- mena, and by the latter the eternal ground or cause whose essence they express." God is Himself the Real Absolute, and Nature
