As The Conscious Self Shines By Himself, Thought Is Necessary Only For Determining

 - the appropriate word to be used, but not for the illumination of the object itself. Otherwise there could not exist the well-known distinction between

- the moments of thoughtlessness on the one hand and the states of sushupti, swoon, and death on the other, a distinction caused by the presence of 

- self-consciousness in the former, and its absence in the latter. People do perceive a vast difference between them. Wherefore the Ego being

- self-luminous in all mundane consciousness, he is "like the Sun" in form. Having this very idea in mind the Vajasaneyins read, "Wherewith, O man!, may one know the knower?" (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 2-4-14)

- And the Ego engages in all acts accompanied with sankalpa and ahankara, with fancy and egoism. Sankalpa or fancy consists in imagining that such things as 

- houses and lands are good when struck with their apparently pleasure-given nature of the moment, though they are in fact, of a reverse character,

- being in themselves hard to get, perishable, and so on. Egoism consists in thinking "I am the owner of the house etc."

- Antah-karana, the inner sense, assuming the form of an object, proceeds outward, i.e., it becomes objective; while assuming the form "I" it proceeds inward, i.e., it becomes subjective.