Sketch of the Religious Sects of the Hindus c7.s2.16

c7.s2.16

According to this authority, BRAHMA, or the Supreme Being, having determined to create the universe by his super-human power, became twofold, the right half becoming a male, the left half a female, which was *Prakriti*. She was of one nature with BRAHMA. She was illusion, eternal and without end : as is the soul, so is its active energy ; as the faculty of burning is in fire.* In another passage it is said, that KRISHNA, who is in this work identified with the Supreme, being alone invested with the divine nature, beheld all one universal blank, and contemplating creation with his mental vision, he began to create all things by his own will, being united with his will, which became manifest as MU'LA PRAKRITI.† The original PRAKRITI first assumed five