Brahmanas well read in the subjects of enquiry speak of the two feet as Spiritual, the act of walking as Elemental and Vishnu as Accidental.

The lower duct is Spiritual; its function of throwing out the excreta is Elemental, and Mitra (Surya) is the Accidental.

The organ of generation is called Spiritual. Its agreeable function is called Elemental and Prajapati is its Accidental.

The hands are Spiritual; their function as represented by acts is Elemental; and Indra is the Accident of those limbs.

The organs of speech are spiritual; the words uttered by them are Elemental; and Agni is their Accidental.

The eye is Spiritual; vision or form is its Elemental, and Surya is the Accidental of that organ.

The car is Spiritual; sound is Elemental; and the points of the compass are its Accidental.

The tongue is Spiritual; taste is its Elemental; and Water is its Accidental.

The sense of scent is Spiritual; odor is its elemental; and Earth is its Accidental.

The skin is Spiritual; touch is its Elemental; and Wind is its Accidental.

Mind has been called Spiritual that with which the Mind is employed is Elemental; and the moon is its Accidental.

Ahankara is Spiritual; that which is to be vanity is its Elemental; and Rudra is its Accidental.

Buddhi is Spiritual; that which is to be understood is its Elemental; and Soul is its Accidental.

I have thus truly expounded to you, O king, with its details taken individually. The power of the supreme in the beginning, the middle, and the end, O you, who are fully conversant with the nature of the original principles.

Nature, cheerfully and of her own accord, as if for sport, O king produces, by undergoing changes herself, thousands and thousands of combinations of her original qualities.

As men can light thousands of lamps from but a single lamp, similarly Nature, by change, multiplies into thousands of existent objects the (three) qualities of Purusha.

Patience, joy, prosperity, satisfaction, brightness of all faculties, happiness, purity, health, contentment, faith, liberality, mercy, forgiveness, firinness, benevolence, equanimity, truth, satisfaction of obligations, mildness, modesty, calmness, external purity, simplicity, observance of obligatory rites, dispassionateness, fearlessness of heart, disregard for good and evil as also for pristine deeds,-appropriation of objects only when acquired by gift, the absence of cupidity, regard for the interests of others, mercy for all crcatures, these have been said to be the characteristics of the quality of Goodness.

The characteristics of the quality of Darkness are pride of personal beauty, assertion of supremacy, war, disinclination to give, absence of mercy, enjoyment and enduring of happiness and misery, pleasure in speaking ill of others, habit of quarrelling, pride, discourtesy, anxiety, hostilities, sorrow, appropriation of others' properties, shamelessness, crookedness, disunion, roughness, lust, anger, pride, assertion of superiority, malice and calumny. These originate from the quality of Darkness. I shall now tell you of qualities which originate Ignorance.

They are stupefaction of judgement, obscuration of every faculty, darkness, blind darkness. Darkness means death, and blind darkness means anger.

Besides these, the other marks of Ignorance are greediness for food, ceaseless appetite for both food and drink, taking pleasure in scents and dresses and sports and beds and seats and sleep during the day and calumny and all sorts of acts proceeding from carelessness, taking pleasure, in dancing and instrumental and vocal music, and aversion for every sort of religion. These, indeed, are the characteristics of Ignorance.