The original body is subtile and spiritual.

It is the office of Nature to liberate the Soul.
Nature is not what we perceive by the senses, but an invisible plastic principle behind, which must be known by the intellect.

As the Soul ascends by goodness, it is freed by knowledge.

The final result of this emancipation is the certainty of non-existence,--"neither I am, nor is aught mine, nor do I exist,"-- which seems to be the same result as that of Hegel, Being = Not-Being.

Two or three of the aphorisms of the Karika are as follows:-- "LIX.