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selves with names and forms, and thus bear corresponding distinctive names and forms. This, other scriptural texts also distinctly declare, 'When a man lying in deep sleep sees no dream whatever, he becomes one with that prana alone ;-from that Self the pränas proceed, each towards its place' (Ka. Up. III, 3); Whatever these creatures are here, whether a lion or a wolf or a boar or a gnat or a mosquito, that they become again' (Kh. Up. VI, 9, 3).Hence the term 'Sat' denotes the highest Brahman, the all-knowing highest Lord, the highest Person. Thus the Vrittikára also says, 'Then he becomes united with the Sat—this is proved by (all creatures) entering into it and coming back out of it.' And Scripture also says, 'Embraced by the intelligent Self.'—The next Satra gives an additional reason.
11. On account of the uniformity of view. 'In the beginning the Self was all this; there was nothing else whatsoever thinking. He thought, shall I send forth worlds? He sent forth these worlds' (Ait. Ar. II, 4, 1, 1); 'From that Self sprang ether, from ether air, from air fire, from fire water, from water earth' (Taitt. Up. II, 1); From this great Being were breathed forth the Rig-veda,' &c.— These and similar texts referring to the creation have all the same purport: they all teach us that the Supreme Lord is the cause of the world. We therefore conclude that in the Kh. passage also the Sat, which is said to be the cause of the world, is the Supreme Lord.
12. And because it is directly stated in Scripture,
The text of the same Upanishad directly declares that the being denoted by the word 'Sat'evolves, as the universal Self, names and forms; is all-knowing, all-powerful, allembracing; is free from all evil, &c. ; realises all its wishes and purposes. 'Let me, entering those beings with this living Self, evolve names and forms' (Kh. Up. VI, 3, 2);
All these creatures have their root in the Sat, they dwell in the Sat, they rest in the Sat' (VI, 8, 4); *All this has that for its Self; it is the True, it is the Self' (VI, 8, 7);
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