7.8 Raso  'ham apsu etc.  I am that  [basic] taste which has not yet devolped as to have the classification of sweetness and so on,  and which is being  tasted in all waters.  Similarly, the light :  That  [light]  which is  devoid of gentleness and fierceness etc.  (The sound that exist]  in the ether in the sky.  The sound that etc.  Here the emphasis is on all sounds,  as they are attributes of  the ether.  Or, the passage denotes that empty basic  sound which, being exclusively an attribute of th ether;  which does not depend on any other  external  cuases like union  and partition   [of some  objects];  which exists in the ether within the cave of the Brahman;  which is ite intelligible  to the groups of Yogins  with attentive heart  (mind);  which bears the name Anahata; and which pervades the entire groups of the Vedas - that sound represents the Absolute.  Manly vigour ;  that lusture by means of which one is identified  as a man throughout the earth.