142.  In ancient India, the Rishis living in the woods got their fire by rubbing two sticks together.  These they called Arani.  Brahma on earth is explained by Nilakantha to mean the Vedas, the Brahmanas, and the Sacrifices.

143.  These are the twelve Adityas or chief gods.

144.  Thou art pure Knowledge and resident beyond the darkness of ignorance.  I bow to thee not in any of those forms in which thou art ordinarily adored but in that form of pure light which Yogins only can behold by spiritual sight.

145.  The five libations are Dhana, Karambha, Parivapa, and water.  The seven woofs are the seven mantras (Cchandas) predominating in the Vedic hymns, such as Gayatri, etc.

146.  The Prajapatis who are the creators of the universe performed a sacrifice extending for a thousand years.  The Supreme Being appeared in that sacrifice as an act of grace to the sacrificers.

147.  Sandhis are those changes of contiguous vowels (in compounding two words) that are required by the rules of euphony.  Akshara is literally a character or letter; word made up of characters or letters.

148.  The manifest is the body.  The Rishis seek thy unmanifest self within the body, in their own hearts.  Kshetra is buddhi or intelligence.  The Supreme Being is called Kshetrajna because he knows every mind.  Intelligence or mind is one of his forms.

149.  The sixteen attributes are the eleven senses and the five elements in their subtle forms called Mahabhutas.  Added to this is Infinity.  The Supreme Being, according to the Sankhya doctrine, is thus the embodiment of the number seventeen.  Thy form as conceived by the Sankhyas, i.e., thy form as Number.

150.  In cases of those that are reborn, there is always a residuum of sin and merit for which they have, in their earthly life, to suffer and enjoy.  In the case, however, of those that have betaken themselves to a life of renunciation the great endeavour is to exhaust this residuum.

151. i.e. that which is chewed, that which is sucked, that which is licked, and that which is drunk.

152.  All creatures are stupefied by love and affection.  The great end which the Yogins propose to themselves is to tear those bonds rising superior to all the attractions of the flesh to effect their deliverance or emancipation from rebirth.

153. i.e.  Brahmacharin.

154.  Linum usitatissimun.

155.  Samsara is the world or worldly life characterised by diverse attachments.  Reflection on Hari frees one from those attachments.  Or, Samsara may mean the repeated deaths and births to which the unemancipated soul is subject.  Contemplation of the divine Being may prevent such repeated births and deaths by leading to emancipation.

156. i.e.  One that goes thither is not subject to rebirth.

157.  The Vedas constitute the speech of the Supreme Being.  Everything about morality occurs in them.