16. The principles of thought and animation—the mind and life, are but partial reflexions of the Divine Soul; and the form of mind is the faculty of thought, as that of life is the power of animation. (The one is called the rational and the other animating soul).
17. Thus the mind being but the thinking power of Brahma, receives the appellation of Brahmá; and this power appearing as a part of the impersonal Brahma, is identified with Ego (the personal Brahma).
18. It is our error which makes a difference between the soul and mind, and Brahma and Brahmá; because the properties which belong to the mind, are the same with those of the self-existent soul.
19. That which is variously named as the principle of mind or thought, is the same power of omnipotence which is settled in the mind (which is the repository of the thinking powers).
20. So are all the properties of the living soul, contained in and derived from the universal soul of Brahma; as all the properties of vegetation, blossoming and fructification of trees, are contained in the season of spring, and are dispensed among the plants, agreeably to their respective soil and climate, and other circumstances (of their culture &c.).
21. As the earth yields its various fruits and flowers in their season, so the hearts and minds of men, entertain their thoughts and passions in their proper times: some appearing at one time and others at another (like the paddies and other grains of particular seasons).
22. And as the earth produces its harvests, according to their particular soil and season; so the heart and mind exhibit their thoughts and feelings of their own accord, and not caused by another.
23. The numbers and forms which convey determinate ideas, as distinguished from others of the same kind (as the figures in arithmetic and geometry), are all expressed in words coined by the mind from the mint of the mind of Brahma, the original source of ideas.
24. The mind adopts the same image as the reflexions which it receives from without, or the thoughts and imaginations it forms of itself, and as the instance of the Aindava brothers, serves to support this truth (of the double power of intuition and perception of the mind, to see into its own inner operations, and receive the impressions from without).
25. The animating principle (jíva-zoa), which is the cause of this creation, resides in the Supreme Spirit, like the fluctuation which is seen in the unagitated waters of the oceans.