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SHVETASHVTAR UPANISHAD
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elements of matter, viz; earth, water, fire, air and ether), and
womb or soul can be the cause of this universe. The combina-
tion of the said things can also be not the cause, for the soul
being subject to pain and pleasure and being not independent
in this regard cannot also be the cause or
Brahma.
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3. Then the said spiritualists, by concentration of their
minds, realised the power of God (Supreme Spirit), hidden by
His natural (innumerable wonderous) qualities-God who alone
is the controller of all the said several causes and is the cause
of the universe, i.e., its creator, controller and destructor.
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4. The said spiritualists saw God's universe resem5ling a
wheel which has one felly (circumference), three tyres
(sattva,
raja and
tama),
sixteen extremities (vital organs, faith, space,
air, heat, mind, food, semen, austerity, vedic hymns, action,
worlds and names), twenty wedges (five senses, five parts of
action and their ten objects), with six sets of eight and single
belt
(kama
or desire) heart, yet manifold with three different