of the Knower, the Known, and K now-ledge, then is the Yogin said to behold the Supreme Soul.[1622] While in Yoga, the Supreme Soul displays itself in the Yogin’s heart like a blazing fire, or like the bright Sun, or like the lightning’s flame in the sky.  That Supreme Soul which is Unborn and which is the essence of nectar, that is seen by high-souled Brahmanas endued with intelligence and wisdom and conversant with the Vedas, is subtiler than what is subtile and greater than what is great.  That Soul, though dwelling in all creatures, is not seen by them.  The creator of the worlds, He is seen only by a person endued with wealth of intelligence when aided by the lamp of the mind.  He dwells on the other share of thick Darkness and transcends him called Iswara.[1623] Persons conversant with the Vedas and endued with omniscience call Him the dispeller of Darkness, stainless, transcending Darkness, without attributes and endued therewith.

“’This is what is called the Yoga of Yogins.  What else is the indication of Yoga?  By such practices do Yogins succeeded in beholding the Supreme Soul that transcends destruction and decay.  This much that I have told thee in detail concerns about the science of Yoga.  I shall now discourse to thee of that Sankhya philosophy by which the Supreme Soul is seen through the gradual destruction of errors.[1624] The Sankhyas, whose system is built on Prakriti, say that Prakriti, which is Unmanifest, is the foremost.  From Prakriti, they say, O monarch, the second principle called Mahat, is produced.  It is heard by us that from Mahat flows the third principle called Consciousness.  The Sankhyas blessed with sight of the Soul say that from Consciousness flow the five subtile essence of sound, form, touch, taste, and scent.  All these eight they call by the name of Prakriti.  The modifications of these eight are sixteen in number.  They are the five gross essence of space, light, earth, water, and wind, and the ten senses of action and of knowledge including the mind.  Men of wisdom devoted to the Sankhya path and conversant with all its ordinances and dispensations regard these four and twenty topics as embracing the whole range of Sankhya enquiry.  That which is produced becomes merged in the producing.  Created by the Supreme Soul one after another, these principles are destroyed in a reverse order.  At every new Creation, the Gunas start into existence in the lateral order (as stated above), and (when Destruction comes) they merge, (each into its progenitor) in a reverse order, like the waves of the ocean disappearing in the ocean that gives them birth.  O best of kings, this is the manner in which the Creation and the Destruction of Prakriti takes place.  The Supreme Being is all that remains when Universal Destruction takes place, and it is He that assumes multifarious forms when Creation starts into life.  This is even so, O king, as ascertained by men of knowledge.  It is Prakriti that causes the Overpresiding Purusha to