Note 186 — SA@NKARA'S INTRODUCTION (continued 3)

Footnote 186:

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The masculine 'âvirbhûtasvarûpah' qualifies the substantive jîvah which has to be supplied. Properly speaking the jîva whose true nature has become manifest, i.e. which has become Brahman, is no longer jîva; hence the explanatory statement that the term jîva is used with reference to what the jîva was before it became Brahman.