4. Self-dependence—Intuition
5. Freedom from bias or onesidedness.
6. Abstraction or abstract knowledge.
7. Generalization of all in the universal unity.
8. Liberation is anaesthesia or cessation of action, sensation and thoughts.
CHAPTER CXIX.
Illustration of the Gold-ring.
Argument. Ascertaining the True Unity by rejecting the illusory forms and on the said Grounds of Knowledge.
Vasishtha said:—The human soul reflecting on its egoism, forgets its essence of the Supreme soul; as the gold-ring thinking on its formal rotundity, loses its thought of the substantial gold whereof it is made.
2. Ráma said:—Please tell me sir, how the gold can have its consciousness of its form of the ring, as the soul is conscious of its transformation to egoism.
3. Vasishtha said:—The questions of sensible men, relate only to the substances of things, and not to the production and dissolution of the existent formal parts of things, and neither to those of the non-existent; so you should ask of the substances of the soul and gold, and not of the ego and the ring, which are unsubstantial nullities in nature. (So men appraise the value of the gold of which the ring is made, and not by the form of the ring).