6. Of these, they that do not deviate from their consciousness—samvitti of themselves—swarúpa, as composed of the pure ens or essence only (suddha-san-mátra), are not liable to ignorance; because of their want of passions and affections, and of the feelings of envy and enmity in them. (The highest intelligence of one’s self, is the consciousness of his self-existence, or that “I am that I am” as a spiritual being; because the spirit or soul is the true self).
7. But falling off from the consciousness of self-entity—swarúpa, and diving into the intellect—Chit, in search of the thoughts of cognizable objects (chetyárthas), is the greatest ignorance and error of mankind. (No error is greater than to fall off from the subjective and run after the objective).
8. The truce that takes place in the mind, in the interim of a past and future thought of one object to another (arthadar thántara); know that respite of the mind in thinking, to be the resting of the soul, in the consciousness of its self-entity swarúpa.
9. That state of the soul which is at calm after the setting of the thoughts and desires of the mind; and which is as cold and quiet as the bosom of a stone, and yet without the torpitude of slumber or dull drowsiness; is called the supineness of the soul in its recognition of itself.
10. That state of the soul, which is devoid of its sense of egoism and destitute of its knowledge of dualism, and its distinction from the state of the one universal soul, and shines forth with its unsleeping intelligence, is said to be at rest in itself or swarúpa.
11. But this state of the pure and self-intelligent soul, is obscured by the various states of ignorance, whose grounds you will now hear me relate unto you. These are the three states of wakefulness or jágrat, known as the embryonic waking (or vijajágrat), the ordinary waking, and the intense waking called the mahajágrat. (i.e. the hypnotism or hybernation of the soul, being reckoned its intelligent state, its waking is deemed as the ground of its ignorance, and the more is it awake to the concerns of life, the more it is said to be liable to error).
12. Again the different states of its dreaming (swapnam or somnum), are also said to be the grounds of its ignorance and these are the waking dream, the sleeping dream, the sleepy waking and sound sleep or sushupti. These are the seven grounds of ignorance. (Meaning hereby, all the three states of waking, dreaming and sound sleep (jágrat, swapna and sushupta), to be the grounds fertile with our ignorance and error).
13. These are the seven-fold grounds, productive of sheer ignorance, and which when joined with one another, become many more and mixed ones, known under different denominations as you will hear by and by.
14. At first there was the intelligent Intellect (Chaitanya Chit), which gave rise to the nameless and pure intelligence Suddha-Chit; which became the source of the would-be mind and living soul.
15. This intellect remained as the ever waking embryonic seed of all, wherefore it is called the waking seed (Vijajágrat); and as it is the first condition of cognition, it is said to be the primal waking state.