4. Therefore know Ráma, this same Brahmá to be the _Parameshthi_ or situated in the Supreme, and being a personification of the Will of God, is called the Mind. 5. The Mind therefore known as the Lord Brahmá, is a form of the Divine essence, and being full of desires in itself, sees all its wills (in their ideal forms), present before it. 6. The mind then framed or fell of itself, into the delusion (avidyá), of viewing its ideal images as substantial (as one does in his delirium); and thence the phenomenal world (with whatever it contains), is said to be the work of Brahmá. 7. Thus the world proceeding in this order from the Supreme essence, is supposed by some to have come into being from another source, of dull material particles. (Doctrine of Hylotheism or the Materialistic system of Sánkhya Philosophy), 8. It is from that Brahmá, O Ráma! that, all things situated in this concave world, have come to being, in the manner of waves rising on the surface of the deep. 9. The self-existent Brahmá that existed in the form of intellect (chit) before creation, the same assumed the attribute of egoism (ahankára) afterwards, and became manifest in the person of Brahmá. (Thence called Swayambhu or self-born). 10. All the other powers of the Intellect, which were concentrated in the personality of the Ego, were tantamount to those of Omnipotence. (The impersonal Intellect and the personal Ego or Brahmá, are both of them equally powerful).[9] 11. The world being evolved from the eternal ideas in the Divine Intellect, manifested itself in the mind of the great father of all—Brahmá. (_Intellectus noster nihil intelligit sine phantasmata_); it is the mind which moves and modifies them, and is the Intelligence (logos-Word) of the One, and the manifestation of its power. 12. The Mind thus moving and modeling all things is called the _Jíva_ living soul or Nous. (The Scholiast says:—The Mind is the genus—_Samashti_, the soul is an individual name (Vyashti) of every individual living being. The Mind is soul without personality; the soul is the mind of a certain being. The Mind is the principle of volition, and the soul is that of animation). 13. These living souls rise and move about in the vacuous sphere of the infinite Intellect (chidákása). These are unfolded by the elementary particles of matter, and pass in the open space surrounded by air. They then reside in the fourteen kinds of animated nature, according to the merit and demerit of their prior acts. They enter the bodies through the passage of their vital breath, and become the seeds of moving and immoving beings. 14. They are then born of the generative organ (foetus), and are met on a sudden by the desires of their previous births (which lay waiting on them). Thus led on by the current of their wishes, they live to reap the reward or retribution of their good or bad acts in the world.