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104 SIVAGNANA BOTHAM.
XI.
ELEVENTH SUTRA.
THE WAY BY WHICH SOUL UNITES WITH
GOD.
Sutra.—As the soul enables the eye to see and
itself sees, so Hara enables the soul to know and
itself knows. And this Adwaitha knowledge and
undying Love will unite it to His Feet.
Commentary.
The Sutra treats of the way by which the soul unites
with the sacred foot of the Lord and consists of two argu-
ments.
First Argument.
Churnika.—Hara feels what the Gnani feels.
Varthikam.—It is proved that the Lord knows what-
ever the soul knows, as the soul cannot perceive anything,
except with the aid of the Lord.
Illustrations.—(a) As the soul becomes conscious of
such objects only as it comes in contact with each of the
senses separately, it cannot apprehend all the objects of the
five senses at once, but apprehends them only one by one.
But God sees and understands all things at once.
(b). When the soul unites itself to God and feels His
Arul, God covers it with his Supreme Bliss and becomes