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Science of the Absolute did 6

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did 6

The aforesaid power of the Lord, however, is to be understood in two distinct ways: (first) as taijasi, or belonging to the light (i.e. heliotropic); and (secondly), as tamasi, as belonging to darkness (i.e. geotropic). We can divide the (specificatory) power of the Lord into two (ambivalent) divisions referring respectively to light (tejas) and darkenss (tamas). Light and 'darkness cannot co-exist. It is the same with these two (ambivalent and specifactory) factors or powers of the Lord.


The terms sankalpa (willing), vasana (incipient memory factor), and sakti (potent power), have been employed so as to be considered equivalent (vertically), each in itself as to the mind (manas) which occupies the central position in this verse. This world was merely of a mental status before creation.

Just as an artist creates in respect of his painting, so the Lord

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