3. In him resides entity and non-entity, in him there is unity, duality and plurality, and the beginning and end of all things. (Because omnipotence has the power to be all things, which limited powers cannot do).
4. This is one and no other else (i.e. it is all that is, and there is none else beside it (Id est non alter). It is as the sea, whose waters have endless varieties of shapes, and represent the images of myriads of stars in its bosom; rising spontaneously of themselves).
5. The density of the Intellect makes the mind, and the mind brings forth all the powers of thinking, willing or volition, and of acting or action. These it produces, accumulates, contains, shows and then absorbs in itself.
6. (Verse) Brahma is the source of all living beings, and of all things seen all around us. His power is the cause of exhibiting all things, in their incessant course or quiescence.
7. All things spring from the Supreme Spirit, and they reside in his all comprehensive mind. They are of the same nature with that of their source, as the water of the sweet and saltish lakes.
8. Ráma interrupted here and said:—Sir, your discourse is very dark, and I cannot understand the meaning of the words of your speech.
9. There is that nature of Brahma, which you said to be beyond the perception of the mind and senses, and what are these perishable things, which you say to have proceeded from him. If your reasoning comes to this end, I cannot then rely upon it.
10. Because it is the law of production, that anything that is produced from something, is invariably of the same nature with that of its producer.
11. As light is produced from light, corns come from corn, and man is born of man, and all kinds come out of their own kind.
12. And so the productions of the immutable Spirit, must also be unchangeable and spiritual too in their nature.