off one’s person before they become thick, after the same manner one should, with vigorous efforts, wash off one’s faults.[1354] By mixing only a few flowers with them, grains of sesame cannot be made to cast off their own odour (and become at once fragrant).  After the same manner, one cannot, by cleansing one’s heart only a little, succeed in beholding the Soul.  When, however, those grains are perfumed repeatedly with the aid of a large quantity of flowers, it is then that they cast off their own odour and assume that of the flowers with which they are mixed.  After this manner, faults, in the form of attachments to all our environments, are dispelled by the understanding in course of many lives, with the aid of a large dose of the attribute of the Sattwa, and by means of efforts born of practice.[1355] Listen, O Danava, by what means creatures attached to acts and those unattached to them attain the causes that lead to their respective states of mind.[1356] Listen to me with undivided attention.  I shall, in their due order, discourse to thee, O puissant Danava, as to how creatures betake themselves to action and how they give up action.[1357] The Supreme Lord creates all creatures mobile and immobile.  He is without beginning and without end.  Unendued with attributes of any kind, he assumes attributes (when he chooses to create).  He is the universal Destroyer, the Refuge of all things, the Supreme Ordainer, and pure Chit.[1358] In all creatures it is He who dwells as the mutable and the immutable.  It is He who, having eleven modifications for His essence, drinketh this universe with His rays.[1359] Know that the Earth is His feet.  His head is constituted by Heaven.  His arms, O Daitya, are the several points of the compass or the horizon.  The intermediate space is His ears.  The light of His eye is the Sun, and His mind is in the Moon.  His understanding dwells always in Knowledge, and His tongue is in Water.[1360] O best of Danavas, the Planets are in the midst of His brows.  The starts and constellations are from the light of His eyes.  The Earth is in His feet.  O Danava!  Know also that the attributes of Rajas, Tamas, and Sattwa are of Him.  He is the fruit (or end) of all the modes of life, and He it is who should be known as the fruit (or reward) of all (pious) acts (such as Japa and Sacrifice, etc.).[1361] The Highest and Immutable, He is also the fruit of abstention from all work.  The Chandas are the hair on His body, and Akshara (or Pranava) is His word.  The diverse orders (of men) and the modes of life are His refuge.  His mouths are many.  Duty (or religion) is planted in his heart.  He is Brahma; He is the highest Righteousness; He is Sat and He is Asat;[1362] He is Sruti; He is the scriptures; He is the Sacrificial vessel; He is the six and ten Ritwijes; He is all the Sacrifices; He is the Grandsire (Brahman); He is Vishnu; He is the twin Aswins; and He is Purandara;[1363] He is Mitra; He is Varuna; He is Yama; He is Kuvera the lord of treasures.