Text 31] The Perfect Society: Four Spiritual Classes
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ego, which is under the influence of the material modes of nature and which induces one to think, “I am this body, and everything connected with this body is mine,” should be merged, along with material activities, in Rudra, the predominating deity of false ego. Material consciousness, along with the goal of thought, should be merged in the individual living being, and the demigods acting under the modes of material nature should be merged, along with the perverted living being, into the Supreme Being. The earth should be merged in water, water in the brightness of the sun, this brightness into the air, the air into the sky, the sky into the false ego, the false ego into the total material energy, the total material energy into the unmanifested ingredients [the pradhāna feature of the material energy], and at last the ingredient feature of material manifestation into the Supersoul.
TEXT 31
हत्यक्षरतयात्मानं चिन्मात्रमवशेषितम् । 
    शत्वाद्वयोऽथ विरमेद् दग्धयोनिरिवानलः ॥३१॥
ity akṣaratayātmānam 
    cin-mātram avaśeṣitam 
    jñātvādvayo 'tha viramed 
    dagdha-yonir ivānalaḥ
iti —thus;  akṣaratayā —because of being spiritual;  ātmānam —oneself (the individual soul);  cit-mātram —completely spiritual;  avaśeṣitam —the remaining balance (after the material elements are merged, one after another, into the original Supersoul);  jñātvā —understanding;  advayaḥ —without differentiation, or of the same quality as the Paramātmā;  atha —thus;  viramet —one should cease from material existence;  dagdha-yoniḥ —whose source (the wood) has burnt up;  iva —like;  analaḥ —flames.
TRANSLATION
When all the material designations have thus merged into their respective material elements, the living beings, who are all ultimately completely spiritual, being one in quality with the