The great mind never knows that the universe is merged in the Self. It does not wake, it does not sleep, it thinks of nothing anywhere.

The final recurrence of this verse closes the circle of the prakaraṇa. The mahat—great mind—is the mind that has transcended mind; it thinks not, yet all thought occurs within it. The jīvanmukta does not “know” the truth but is the truth: there is no subject cognizing an object, only the luminosity shining forth as subject-object. This is the “great