शिवज्ञानबोध (मेय्कण्डार - शैव सिद्धान्त का आधारभूत दार्शनिक सूत्र ग्रन्थ)

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illustrate the principle that the souls are derived from God.
Here the resemblances are not exact and the consequence does
not follow. In the one case we have only Brahm from which
we have got to derive many souls. On the other hand, we have
one Sun and many pots which are also filled with water to
reproduce not many Suns but merely the shadow or reflection of
the Sun. Neither is the shadow the same as the Sun nor are
the pots and water derived from the Sun. But let us view the
analogy from another point and see how pregnant it is. The
Sun is Brahm, the pot is Maya or Pasa binding the naturally
expansive water or the soul. And the reflection of the Sun is
God's presence in Man and the Sun's reflection or light passes
through the water and lies on it and yet is not contaminated nor
touched by it. So God being a Gnana Sorupi, chit or Mahachai-
tanyam, though in contact with the world and souls, are not
tainted by it and feels no weariness nor change (illustration 2b).
And the breaking of the pot, Pasatchaya, releases the water from
its confined condition and it vanishes into invisible vapour before
the heat of the Sun. (Arul of God). In the same way, almost
every analogy employed by the Hindu idealists can be easily
shown to falsify their own position and support the position
herein established.
Analogy I may say is largely used in this work as a method
of proof, as any other kind of proof is hardly possible when
dealing with the nature of the very ultimate of all existences.
The conjunction of the mind and body, it is admitted, is a unique
phenomenon in nature. Its conjunction cannot be proved, being
the very ultimate of all facts; and the position can only be proved
or illustrated by various analogies, say for instance, the analogy
of vowels and consonants (Vide Sutra No. 2). So we pass on
from this conjunction of mind and body to that of Soul and mind
and to that of Brahm or God and Soul, and the unions in all these
cases are analogous.