removes the three-fold disorders, but when raw or sour it causes
them; when used in various applications it cures many disorders;
and since it is composed of many different things it is an
excellent medium for mixing. But as it consists of the juices of
flowers which are mutually contrary in the action, potency, and
qualities of their various ingredients, and it may happen that
poisonous insects may be included, it is only good as a remedy for
cold diseases."] So the individual souls at the world's
dissolution are absorbed in the Lord; but they do not become
identified with Him, for they are again separated at the next
creation.

83. There is a difference between rivers and the sea, with their
respective sweet and salt water; so too God and the soul are
different and possessed of distinct attributes [Footnote: In
allusion to Mu.n.d. Upan. iii. 2. 8.].

84. Rivers, when joined to the sea from all sides, are not
identified with it nor yet do they appear to be separate; but from
the difference between salt water and sweet water [Footnote: Most
of the MSS. and the Benares Pa.n.dit read __kshi roda__; but the
Calcutta ed. and one of the two MSS. in the Library of the Calcutta
Sanskrit College read __ksharoda__, which seems preferable. If we
read __kshiroda__, the line would require to be rendered, "but from
the difference between milk mixed with water and pure water," or
perhaps "from the difference between the milk-ocean and the water-
ocean."] there must be a real difference between them.

85. Others see not the difference when water is mixed with milk, but
the swan at once separates the milk and the water [Footnote: Cf.