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Rh may say, out.of the Akshara, the immutable Purusha, the Self who stands above all the modes or qualities or workings of Nature, nstraigunya. The Brahman is one but self-displayed in two aspects, the immutable Being and the creator and originator of werks in the mutable becoming, Atman, sarvabhiitini; it is the immobile omnipresent Soul of things and it is the spiritual prin- ciple of the mobile working of things, Purusha poised in himself and Purusha active in Prakriti; it is akshara and kshara. In both of these aspects the Divine Being, Purushottama, manifests himself in the universe ; the immutable above all qualities is His poise of peace, sclf-possession, equality, samam Brahma; from that proceeds His manifestation in the qualities of Prakriti and their universal workings; from the Purusha in Prakriti, from this Brahman with qualities, proceed all ‘the works of * the universal energy, Karma, in man and in all existences; from that work proceeds the prin- ciple of sacrifice. Even the material interchange between gods and men proceeds upon this principle, as typefied in the dependence of rain and its product food on this working and on them the physical birth of