Third Pâda: 34. So much; on account of reflection

Only so much, i.e. only those qualities which have to be included in all meditations on Brahman, without which the essential special nature of Brahman cannot be conceived, i.e. bliss, knowledge, and so on, characterised by absence of grossness and the like. Other qualities, such as doing all works and the like, although indeed following their substrate, are explicitly to be meditated on in special meditations only.--Here terminates the adhikarana of 'the idea of the Imperishable.' Next: 35. Should it be said that the former reply refers to that Self to which the aggregate of material things belongs...