(translated to Kannada by H.H Sri Vidyamanyatirtha, translated from kannada to English by Madhukrishna Note:I can only say I have translated based on the understanding I have and within my limits.)
By evidence it can be proved
that truth can be of two types – independent and dependent.
One who is free of defects, full of auspicious attributes, such
Godhead Vishnu is Independent truth.
Dependent truth is of two types deficient and non-deficient. Deficient can be divided into three – deficiency for objects before its birth, deficiency for objects after its death, deficiency for objects that never exist.
There is no other type of deficiency than those stated above.
Non-deficient is of two types – living and non-living.
Living entities which are dependent can be divided into ever liberated and the ones who are touched by misery and under go tranmigration in material world.
Lakshmi is the only ever liberated. Other living entities are divided into liberated and non-liberated.
Even among the liberated souls from humans to four faced Brahma, the auspicious qualities vary hundred times. Lakshmi is always above Brahma in all qualities.
Non-liberated can be
classified into three categories – satvik (mode of
goodness), rajas (mode of action) and tamas (mode of ignorance).
Those who belong to satvik are eligible for liberation. Those is
rajas are bound to the world forever. Those in the tamas
go into deepest ignorance.
Non-living entities are divided into two – indestructible and destructible. Space, time, Vedas, earth, 5 bhootas, 11 senses, Prana, Satva, Rajas & Tamo qualities, Rupa, Rasa, Gandha, Sparsha, Shabdha – 5 tanmendriayas, higher truth, ego, intellect –all these are eternal non-living entities. An object composed by these eternal entities are destructible. All living entities are eternal.
Form, taste and other such qualities, actions, solidity, liquidity and other states all these are based on the properties of the element with which it is made of and are not different from it.
Qualities based on the objects are of two types. That which will stay as long as the base object stays, that which will be destroyed even while the base object stays. Qualities which stay as long as the object stays, are called definite qualities and those qualities which will be destroyed even while object stays are called temporary qualities. One should understand the similarity and difference between the object and their definite qualities. One should also understand the large difference that exists between the Object and its temporary qualities.
Even though Pot is destructible, the mud with which it is made of is indestructible. One should understand the similarity and difference between Pot and mud. Action - reason, quality – object, action – object, casts – person, special – pure, part – parcel, in all these if relationship is temporary one should understand the difference and if relationship is definite one should understand the similarity and difference.
One who understands the divisions made till now between the deficient and non-deficient entities which are under the control of Sri Hari will get liberated from the world.
