Thus There Are Only Two States Of Antah-Karana - But What With The Multiplicity

 - of objects comprehended in the objective experience , what with the frequent recurrence of egoism at different moments, a continuous stream of

- subjective and objective experience is maintained. And this experiencer is said to partake of the nature both of chit and achit, of the sentient and the insentient,

- in the words "partaking both of the nature of the buddhi and of the nature of Atman". Disappearance and manifestation are the attributes of the buddhi,

- the ego disappearing in sleep and again manifesting himself when awake. Self-luminosity is the nature of the Self as shewn already by comparing him to the sun

- Endued with this double nature, the Ego is of the size of a goad-point - so very subtle as the point of that metallic pin attached to a stick with which to goad a bull while ploughing a field

- Otherwise an unobstructed passage through nadis - fine tubes of ethereal matter in the body - would be quite impossible. This Ego or Jivatman is the lower one,

- compared with Paramatman, the Highest Self. Jiva is perceived by all living beings by the notion of Ego, as form is perceived by the eye.

- Though self-luminous in himself, yet he is said to be perceived in so far only as he is experienced and spoken of as the Ego.