Sakunt. sl. 155.]; so too when the souls are absorbed in the supreme
Brahman, the Lord,--the faithful, who have received the Guru's words,
can at once draw a difference between them.

86. Even when milk is mixed with milk and water with water, they do
not become absolutely identified, for they still retain their fixed
measure as before; so, when the souls through intense contemplation
are absorbed in the Supreme Spirit, they do not become identified
with Him; thus say the pure-minded saints.

87. There are certain disputants, sunk in a sea of false logic,
addicted to an evil way, filled with a hundred imaginations of idle
babble, deceived themselves and deceiving the world,--all that they
say, "I am Brahman and all this visible universe also is Brahman,"--
is now shown clearly to be an empty desire.

88. If I and all this universe were Brahman, then there would be an
identity between thee and me; then thy wealth, sons, and wife would
be mine, and mine would be thine, for there would be no distinction
between us.

89. And how then could there be injunction or prohibition, since all
are one, and there is no distinction of caste? If the doctrine of
non-duality be thus held to be established, then what offence has
the Buddhist committed?

90. "The Soul is different from the elements, the senses, the
internal organ, and primary matter, and also from that which is
called the individual,"--thus has it been declared of old by Kapila
to his mother in the third book of the Bhagavata [Footnote: Bhag.