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else is unreal.-If this were so, we rejoin, the text would not say, 'by which the non-heard is heard the non-known is known'; for the meaning of this is, 'by which when heard and known' (not known as false') .the non-heard is heard,' &c. Moreover, if the meaning were that only the one non. differenced substance understood to be the cause of the world is real, the illustrative instance, As by one lump of clay everything made of clay is known,' would not be suitable ; for what is meant there is that through the cognition of the (real) lump of clay its (real) effects are known. Nor must you say that in the illustrative instance also the unreality of the effect is set forth; for as the person to be informed is not in any way convinced at the outset that things made of clay are unreal, like the snake imagined in the rope, it is impossible that such unreality should be referred to as if it were something well known (and the clause, as by one lump of clay,' &c., undoubtedly does refer to something well known), in order to render the initial assertion plausible. And we are not aware of any means of knowledge-assisted or non-assisted by ratiocination — that would prove the non-reality of things effected, previous to the cognition produced by texts such as 'That art thou '; a point which will be discussed at length under II, 1.– Being only this was in the beginning, one, without a second'; 'it thought, may I be many, may I grow forth; it sent forth fire'; 'Let me now enter those three beings with this living Self and evolve names and forms'; 'All these creatures, my son, have their root in the True, they dwell in the True, they rest in the True,' &c.; these passages declare in succession that that which really is is the Self of this world; that previous to creation there is no distinction of names and forms; that for the creation of the world Brahman, termed 'the True' (or Real'), requires no other operative cause but itself; that at the time of creation it forms a resolution, possible to itself only, of making itself manifold in the form of endless movable and immovable things; that in accordance with this resolution there takes place a creation, proceeding in a particular order, of an infinite number of manifold
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