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VIVEKACHUDAMANI IO9

and a servant, the ocean and a well, or Mount Meru and an atom.

y Jf ihtts the Sruli elc.—T\\Q reference is to the sixih Chapter of llie Chhandogya Upanishad, where Uddalaka Aruni tries to impress on ins son, Sveiaketu, the identity of Jiva and Brahman in various ways. ]

243. This contradiction between them is created by superimposition, and is not something real. This superimposition, in the case of Isvara (the Lord) , is Maya or Nescience, which is the cause of Mahat and the rest, — and in the case of the Jiva (the individual soul), listen, — the five Sheaths, which are the effects of Maya,

stand for it.

\_ Mahat — See note on Sloka 123.

And the rest — the grosser manifestations that proceed from Mahat.

Five Sheaihs'^^SQQ note on Sloka 125.]

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