216 ([return])
[ The meaning, as explained by Sreedhara, is that such persons are said to know all, and not those whose knowledge is bounded by the course of the sun and the moon.]
217 ([return])
[ In this round of births and deaths, the creatures themselves are not free agents, being all the while subject to the influence of Karma, as explained by the commentators.]
218 ([return])
[ The commentators explain the word fire, the light, day, &c., as several godheads presiding over particular times.]
219 ([return])
[ The atmosphere occupies space without affecting it or its nature. So all things are in the Supreme Being without affecting him.]
220 ([return])
[ My nature, i.e., the unmanifest principle or primal essence.]