Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government c2.s1.24

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"The Counsel and the Power" are the equivalents of Plato's essentials of good government, φιλοσοφία and δύναμις,13a of the Islamic "Mercy and Majesty" (*jalāl* and *ḥalāl*), in Christian theology of the spirit that giveth life and the letter that killeth (II Cor. III. 6), and of our "Right and Might." "Counsel" (*kratu*, κράτος) might have been rendered as "Will," in accordance with the definition in our text, ŚB. IV. 1. 4. 1, "Whenever with one's mind (*mánasā*) one wills (*kāmáyate*) anything, such as 'This I want' or '*This I would do*,' that is the 'Counsel'," cf. RV. X. 129. 4 *kā́mas* . . . *mánaso rétaḥ prathamám*, AV. XIX. 52, AA. I. 3. 2 *manasā hi sarvān kāmān dhyāyati* . . . *vācā hi sarvān kāmān vadati*, and JB. I. 68 *mano ha vai prajāpatir devatā*, so '*kāmayata*: or by "Authority," what we have a mind to do being the authority for what we actually do. The act expresses what was willed. This being so, we see that "the Counsel and the Power" correspond to Philo's poetic and ordaining "God" and controlling "Lord" (see note 7), or in other words to "his will" and "him" in Eph. I. 11 "the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will." In TS. V. 2. 3. 5 where the "Counsel" is "the beginning of the Sacrifice" (*yajña-mukham*)