•etAvad-eva jij~nAsyaM tattva-jij~nAsunA’’tmanaH /

•anvaya-vyatirekhAbhyAM yat-syAt-sarvatra sarvadA //  

• What the seeker after Truth has to grasp is that Substance which persists always through all its transformations into its various effects or forms, but suffers no diminution in the process as also when all these effects or forms are eliminated in the causal condition. The Supreme Spirit is that ultimate Substance.

•By the two exercises of logic known as ‘anvaya’ and ‘vyatireka’ what is known to exist everywhere and every time is the only thing to be known by those who seek to know the truth of the Atman.

•He who is eager to know the truth of the Spirit should enquire into and ascertain that Reality alone which is proved to exist everywhere and at all times – whether you argue by the negative process, excluding everything else as ‘not that’ or by the positive method of affirming everything as that.

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