3. Vasishtha replied:—The nature of the mind is known to be composed of the property of Volition, which is an attribute of the infinite and almighty power of the Supreme soul. (_i.e._ The mind is the volitive principle of the soul). 4. The mind is known to be of the form of that self-moving principle, which determines the dubitation of men between the affirmative and negative sides (as whether it is so or not _dwikotika_). _i.e._ The principle of rationality or the Reasoning faculty, consisting of the two great alternatives; _viz._ 1. The principle of contradiction: or of two contradictory propositions of which one is true, and the other untrue, _i.e._ Is, or, is not. _2._ _Raison determinantic_ or determining by _a priori_ reasoning, as, why so and not otherwise. 5. The mind is known to be of the form of _Ego_, which is ignorant of the self manifesting soul of God; and believes itself as the subject of its thoughts and actions. 6. The mind is of the nature of imagination (Kalpaná), which is ever busy in its operations: hence the inactivity of the mind is as impossible in this world, as the insapience of the sapient man. (Imagination is an active faculty, representing the phenomena of the internal and external worlds, Sir W. Hamilton. It is an operation of the mind consisting of manifold functions, such as;—1. of receiving by the faculty of conception. 2. of retaining by the faculty of memory. 3. of recalling by the power of reproductive fancy; 4. of combining by productive fancy. In modern philosophy, it is the _power of apprehending_ ideas, and combining them into new forms). 7. As there is no difference in the essence of fire and heat; so there is no difference whatever between mind and its activity, and so betwixt the mind and soul (_i.e._ the living soul). 8. The mind is known by many names in the same person and body, according to its various faculties and functions, its various thoughts and desires, and their manifold operations and consequences. (The mind, soul and intellect taken together as the same thing, comprise all the powers of intellect and intelligence). 9. The Divine Mind is said to be distributed into all souls by mistake and without any reason; since the All—_to pan_ is without any substance or substratum, and indivisible in its nature. It is a mere fabrication of our desires and fancies to diversify it in different persons. (The Divine mind being the _Anima mundi_, contains all within itself, and having no container of it). 10. Whoever has set his desire in any thing as if it were a reality, finds the same to be attended with the like fruit as he had expected of it. (It means either that Association of ideas in the mind, introducing as by a chord; a train of kindred consecutive ideas, which are realised by their constant repetition, or that the primary desires of our nature, which are not factitious, but rising from our constitutions, are soon satisfied).