And again—
"The continuance of all living creatures in this transmigratory world lasts as long as their respiratory involucrum; knowledge and action are accounted the life of living creatures.
"Of these, knowledge is spontaneously developed, and action (or ritual), which is best at Káśi,
"Is indicated by others also: different from these is real knowledge."
And also—
"The knowledge of these things follows the sequence of those things:
"The knower, whose essence is beatitude and knowledge without succession, is Maheśvara."
Sománandanátha also says—
"He always knows by identity with Śiva: he always knows by identity with the real."
Again at the end of the section on knowledge—