the vedantasara tells us that brahman is to be thought of as being nirguna, without attributes; brahman is the sole reality, everything else is anatman, non-existence and non-knowledge. ignorance is two-fold; brahman in relation of totality of ignorance as ishvara has all the attributes of the creator and the ruler of the world but in relation to special ignorance is the individual soul, the defective intelligence, "prājña" (प्राज्ञ) – अस्य प्राज्ञात्वमस्पष्टोपाधितयानतिप्रकाशकत्वात् ||४४||. intelligence in its invisible form refers to brahman – आनन्दभुक् चेतोमुखः प्राज्ञः ("prājña, the enjoyer of bliss, with consciousness for its aid" (mandukya upanishad 5)), the all-knowing reality, in its visible form it is the parviscient jiva which is able to differentiate itself from ishvara – सता सोम्य तदा सम्पन्नो भवति ("then (in dreamless sleep), my dear, he (jiva) becomes one with existence (ishvara) " (chandogya upanishad vi.viii.1)).