Passage 3

In English

The awakens man's thoughts

The enters the body as the Inner Motivator and awakens the thoughts and feelings. In the absence of the , the body is inert; in the absence of the body, thoughts do not arise and in the absence of thought, the universe is not apparent; it is non-existent to the individual. The three are inextricably interdependent - the body (with all the powers of consciousness enclosed in it), the universe and the , either individualised or universally immanent. Both materialism and spiritualism seek the fundamental Universal base; one discovers it in matter, the other in the Spirit. The (Spirit) takes on a form and body to experience and cognise the (Universe), just as cotton takes on the form of yarn to be cognised and experienced as cloth. The cloth is both, the yarn and the cotton. Cotton is the fundamental base, the . It assumes name and form and becomes yarn (the body), and is finally known as cloth, (the ), the product of the thoughts emanating from the body.