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All this also explains how Brahman, which is at all times differentiated by the sentient and non-sentient beings that constitute its body, can be said to be one only previous to creation; the statement is possible because at that time the differentiation of names and forms did not exist.
What the Purvapakshin said as to everything being known through the cognition of the one individual soul, since all individual souls are of the same type this also cannot be upheld; for as long as there is a knowledge of the soul only and not also of the world of non-sentient things, there is no knowledge of everything.
For such is the condition for the creative energy of Brahma and similar beings. Up. We thus understand that that Self of bliss which sends forth the world does not require connexion with non-sentient matter called anumanika, and hence conclude that it is other than the individual soul. A further reason is stated in the next Sutra. Up.
But if the Pradhana were the cause, the aggregate of sentient beings could not be known through it for sentient beings are not the effect of a non-sentient principle, and there would thus arise a contradiction. The next Sutra supplies a further reason. With reference to the 'Sat' the text says, 'Learn from me the true nature of sleep. Up.
In the Chandogya, e.g. it is related how the highest Being having resolved on creation, evolved the aggregate of non-sentient matter with its different kinds, and then produced the fourfold multitude of living creatures, each having a material body corresponding to its karman, and a suitable name of its own.
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