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63 when the Uphanishads speak of them as nondifferent, they transfer a future state of nondifference to that when difference still actually exists.
Summing up the Vedanta philosophy, we find it teaches that the only highest and eternal intelligent reality is the one Supreme Being, and secondly that the individual soul or self is never substantially and essentially anything but the Highest Self, and that our believing that anything else can exist beside it, arises from Avidya or Nescience, and that it is our ignorance only which makes us see phenomenal world and a phenomenal God.
Now we shall pass over to the Sankhya philosophy as taught by Kapila, and shall show its relation to Vedantism on some important doctrines. The Sankhya philosophy is unlike the Vedanta, dualistic. It starts with the doctrine that “there can not be the production of something out of nothing.”. The production of what does not already esist is impossible, because production is only Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com