This heavenly Person is the imperishable ego; it is without form; higher than the imperishable (1.2.10 ff.; 2.1.

2); greater than the great (3.2.

8).

Against this is then set (2.2.

9) the great being _brahma_, without passions or parts, _i.
e_., without intelligence such as was predicated of the _[=a]tm[=a]_; and (3.1.