10-11: "Men of low castes are reborn in higher castes in successive births, and men of high castes in low castes, if they respectively perform and neglect their duties." And then this Vedantic passage of the same author (1.8.22 ff.): "Let one (as penance for sin) devote himself to the Yoga (mental discipline) which has to do with the highest _[=a]tm[=a]_ ...

Nothing is known higher than the acquisition of _[=a]tm[=a]_.

We shall (now) cite some _[=a]tm[=a]_-acquisition-verses, viz.: All living creatures (are) the citadel of him that rests in secret, the indestructible one, the immaculate one.

Immortal they that devote themselves to the moveless one who has a movable dwelling ...

the great one whose body is light, universal, free ...