Text 31] The Perfect Society: Four Spiritual Classes 83
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 pradhana feature of
the material energy], and at last the ingredient feature of material
manifestation into the Supersoul.
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ity aksaratayatmanam
cin-métram avasesitam
Jfiatvadvayo ’tha viramed
dagdha-yonir ivanalah

iti—thus; aksaratayd —because of being spiritual; dtmanam—oneself
(the individual soul); cit-matram—completely spiritual; avasesitam—
the remaining balance (after the material elements are merged, one after
another, into the original Supersoul); jridtva —understanding; advayah
—without differentiation, or of the same quality as the Paramatma;
atha—thus; viramet—one should cease from material existence;
dagdha-yonih—whose source (the wood) has burnt up; iva—like;
analah—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
