From Yoga Vasishta

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Sri Rama asked Sri Vasishta: Kindly tell me again the relationship

between the Supreme Self and the jiva (the individual) with a mind. Who

is this jiva? How was he born?

 

How was he born to Supreme Self, which is only one and is without a

second?

 

Vasishta told him thus: Rama, whenever and whatever power Brahman, or

the Self, appears endowed with, it then thinks that it has that power

at that time in that manner. The jiva is that power of consciousness

(chetana sakti), which is seen from time immemorial. As the form of

sankalpa, (fixed concept, volition) full of the subtle desires of the

mind, the power of Consciousness (Chit) creates, for itself by itself,

dualism and experiences the ideas of birth, growth, decay, and death.

 

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Not two,

Richard