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(RV 10.12.6)

durmantv-atra-amŗtasya nāma salakshmā yad-vişhurūpā bhavāti

Hard to seize by the mind in this world is the name of the immortal because he puts on features and becomes divergent forms.

The ultimate is Reality is One, absolute, indeterminable. The same Reality is here in the Universe, the One manifest in and as the Many, unity spread out in diversity, the Indeterminable determining itself, the Formless putting on forms. But the mind which is lost in the multiplicity is unable to seize the clue to this phenomenon, incapable of knowing the truth of the underlying and indwelling oneness. A higher Light or a deeper vision of the soul has to aid the mind to perceive this fact of manifestation.

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