The cloud is a product of the sun and is revealed by the sun. But the cloud covers the eye, another portion of the sun. The effects of Brahman are revealed by Brahman. Similarly the ahaṅkāra, the effect of Brahman, helps the jīva, a portion of Brahman, to bind himself up. “If everything is Brahman because everything is the effect of Brahman, how can the jīvas, portions of Brahman, be covered by ahaṅkāra, the effect of Brahman, which is illusory? And being covered, how do they become bewildered?” An example is given. The rays of the sun, transformed into clouds, become rain. It is said: agnau prāptāhūtiḥ samyag ādityam upatiṣtḥate ādityāj jāyate vṛṣtir vṛṣter annaṁ tataḥ prajāḥ Oblations to fire go to the sun. From the sun they transform into rain. Rain transforms into food and then into living entities. The product of the sun is a cloud. Thus clouds are manifested by the sun. They cause a covering of the eye (blocking the sun), though the eye is a portion of the sun as well. Similarly ahaṅkāra, an effect of Brahman, binds up the jīva, a portion of Brahman. Ātma-bandhanaḥ means the jīva binds himself.