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everv moment. But the Atman never changes.
[Li/ct' iron &c. — Iron, itself, is never incande*;- cent. it is fire that makes it ap)pear so. Similarly the intcllif^ence of Brahman is imparted to Buddha.
The w(ir(i Jrr^rf? can be disjoined in two wavs ;
viz. as i^f^r f-^rf? or asjn^-!-^nf% the first gives us the meaning of ' sparks " and the second tiial of knower and known, i. e, subject and object.
The viodificaiions are also unreal — because
they, too, are effects and derivatives of Prakriii and depend on their perception by the Buddhi. ]
351. The Paramatman is ever of the na- ture of eternal, indivisible knowledge one withoiit a second, the Witness of Buddhi and the rest, distinct from the real and unreal, the implied meaning of the term and idea 'I,' the embodiment of inward, eternal bliss.
[ The implied meaning — divesting it of its acci- dental condili<;ns of time and circumstances. See Notes on Slokas 248-9. ]
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