28. The meaning of all words taken collectively, expresses a multitude; which is synonymous with Brahma—the great and immense aggregate of the whole.

29. And if we reject the sense of the greatness of God and of the world, as they are usually meant to express, yet the little or minuteness of God that remains at last, is so very minute that words cannot express it. (So the sruti, neither the greatness nor minuteness of God is expressible by words).

30. The lord that remains as the inherent and silent soul of all bodies, is yet but one soul in the aggregate; he remains as a huge mountain of his intelligence, as in the form of the whole of this universal cosmos.


[CHAPTER C.]

Continuation of the same subject.

Argument:—Difference of Brahma from the world, consisting in the indestructibility of his essence.

SIKHIDWAJA said:—If it is so, O most intelligent sir, that the work is alike to the nature of its maker; and therefore the world resembles Brahma in every respect.

2. Kumbha replied:—Where there exists a causality, there is an effectuality also accompanied with it; so where there is no cause whatever, there can be no effect also following the same.