[763] It is perhaps hardly necessary to add that there has been endless discussion as to the sense and manner in which the soul is God.
[764] Bṛihad Âran. IV. 4. 6; Ib. I. iv. 10. "I am Brahman."
[765] See above Book II. chaps. V and VI.
[766] Chând. Up. III. 14.
[767] Chând. Up. VI.
[768] See Deussen, Philosophy of the Upanishads.
[769] Ato'nyad ârtam. Bṛihad Âr. III. several times.
[770] Maitrâyaṇa. Brâh. Upanishad, VI. 20. "Having seen his own self as The Self he becomes selfless, and because he is selfless he is without limit, without cause, absorbed in thought."
[771] There is nothing to fix the date of this work except that Kumârila in commenting on it in the eighth century treats it as old and authoritative. It was perhaps composed in the early Gupta period.
[772] Keith in J.R.A.S. 1907, p. 492 says it is becoming more and more probable that Bâdarâyaṇa cannot be dated after the Christian era. Jacobi in J.A.O.S. 1911, p. 29 concludes that the Brahma-sûtras were composed between 200 and 450 A.D.