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THE VEDANT.
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' parts of the Ved were created :" and also in the
third text of the Vedant, God is declared to be the
cause of all Veds.
The void space is not conceived to be the independ-
ent cause of the world, notwithstanding the following
declaration of the Ved, " The world proceeds from the
" void space ; " * for the Ved again declares, " By the
" Supreme Being the void space was produced." And
1 the Vedant f says : " As the Supreme Being is evidently
" declared in the Ved to be the cause of the void space,
" air, and fire, neither of them can be supposed to be
" the independent cause of the universe."
Neither is air allowed to be the Lord of the Uni-
verse, although the Ved says in one instance, " In air
" every existing creature is absorbed ;" for the Ved
again affirms, that " Breath, the intellectual power, all
" the internal and external senses, the void space, air,
" light, water, and the extensive earth, proceeded
" from the Supreme Being ! " The Vedant % also says :
" God is meant by the following text of the Ved, as a
" Being more extensive than all the extension of space j"
viz. "That breath is greater than the extension of
space in all directions," as it occurs in the Ved, after
the discourse concerning common breath is concluded.
Light, of whatever description, is not inferred to be
the Lord of the Universe, from the following assertion
of the Ved : " The " pure Light of all lights is the Lord
* Chhandoggu.
t Fourteenth text, 4H1 sec. 1st chap. J 8th, 3d, 1st.
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' parts of the Ved were created :" and also in the
third text of the Vedant, God is declared to be the
cause of all Veds.
The void space is not conceived to be the independ-
ent cause of the world, notwithstanding the following
declaration of the Ved, " The world proceeds from the
" void space ; " * for the Ved again declares, " By the
" Supreme Being the void space was produced." And
1 the Vedant f says : " As the Supreme Being is evidently
" declared in the Ved to be the cause of the void space,
" air, and fire, neither of them can be supposed to be
" the independent cause of the universe."
Neither is air allowed to be the Lord of the Uni-
verse, although the Ved says in one instance, " In air
" every existing creature is absorbed ;" for the Ved
again affirms, that " Breath, the intellectual power, all
" the internal and external senses, the void space, air,
" light, water, and the extensive earth, proceeded
" from the Supreme Being ! " The Vedant % also says :
" God is meant by the following text of the Ved, as a
" Being more extensive than all the extension of space j"
viz. "That breath is greater than the extension of
space in all directions," as it occurs in the Ved, after
the discourse concerning common breath is concluded.
Light, of whatever description, is not inferred to be
the Lord of the Universe, from the following assertion
of the Ved : " The " pure Light of all lights is the Lord
* Chhandoggu.
t Fourteenth text, 4H1 sec. 1st chap. J 8th, 3d, 1st.