5. On account of the difference of words.

The clause 'That is the Self of me, within the heart' designates the

embodied soul by means of a genitive form, while the object of

meditation is exhibited in the nominative case. Similarly, a text of the

Vâjasaneyins, which treats of the same topic, applies different terms to

the embodied and the highest Self, 'Like a rice grain, or a barley grain,

or a canary seed, or the kernel of a canary seed, thus that golden

Person is within the Self' (Sat. Br. X, 6, 3, 2). Here the locative form,

'within the Self,' denotes the embodied Self, and the nominative, 'that

golden Person,' the object to be meditated on.--All this proves the

highest Self to be the object of meditation.

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