The universe is a puppet-show; Brahman is sole producer, Br… - W. Douglas P. Hill

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The universe is a puppet-show; Brahman is sole producer, Brahman is scenery and players, Brahman is sole spectator. The universe is Brahman, sportively self-deluded, taking delight in itself. The means of production is the power of delusion, or māyā; scenery and puppets are Brahman, self-stamped with 'name and form', its 'lower nature'—prakṛiti; as spectator it is puruṣa, retaining its proper nature.

W. Douglas P. Hill

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William Douglas Penneck Hill (1884 – 9 April 1962) was a British Indologist noted for his scholarly translation of the Bhagavad Gita.

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