What makes the soul know of its own existence? Something with which it adorns itself, something which it adopts, possesses, owns and uses. For instance, what makes a king know that he is a king? His palace, his kingly environment, people standing before him in attendance; if all that were absent the soul would be no king. Therefore the king is a palace, and it is the consciousness of the environment which makes the soul feel, "I am so and so." What it adorns itself with makes it say, "I am this or that." Otherwise by origin it is something nameless, formless.