"Hari, when propitiated by devotion in the form of meditation, "At once brings to a close that illusion which is the aggregate of works. "Then in souls the essential attributes, from which transmigration has vanished, "Are manifested, auspicious, omniscience, and the rest. "These qualities are common to the emancipated spirits and the Lord, "Universal efficiency alone among them is peculiar to the Deity. "Emancipated spirits are ulterior to the infinite absolute, which is unsusceptible of aught ulterior; "They enjoy all beatitudes together with that Spirit." It is therefore stated that those who suffer the three kinds of pain must, for the attainment of immortality, investigate the absolute spirit known under such appellations as the Highest Being. According to the maxim: The base and the suffix convey the meaning conjointly, and of these the meaning of the suffix takes the lead, the notion of desire is predominant (in the word _jijñásitavya_), and desired knowledge is the predicate (in the aphorism, Then hence the absolute must be desired to be known). Knowledge is cognition designated by such terms as meditation, devotion; not the merely superficial knowledge derived from verbal communication, such being competent to any one who hears a number of words and understands the force of each, even without any predication; in conformity with such Vedic texts as: Self indeed it is that is to be seen, to be heard, to be thought, to be pondered; He should meditate that it is self alone; Having known, let him acquire excellent wisdom; He should know that which is beyond knowledge. In these texts "to be heard" is explanatory, hearing being understood (but not enounced) in the text about sacred study (viz., _shaḍaṅgena vedo'dhyeyo jñeyaścha_, the Veda, with its six appendages, is to be studied and known); so that a man who has studied the Veda must of his own accord, in acquiring the Veda and its appendages, engage in "hearing," in order to ascertain the sense by examining it and the occasion of its enouncement. The term "to be thought" (or "to be inferred") is also explanatory, cogitation (or inference) being understood as the complementary meaning of hearing, according to the aphorism: Before its signification is attained the system is significant. Meditation is a reminiscence consisting of an unbroken succession of reminiscences like a stream of oil, it being revealed in the text, in continuity of reminiscence there is a solution of all knots,--that it is unintermittent reminiscence that is the means of emancipation. And this reminiscence is tantamount to intuition. "Cut is his heart's knot, solved are all his doubts, "And exhausted are all his works, when he has seen the Highest and Lowest,"