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Updated: May 4, 2025
In the Upanishad under discussion there is mention made of three things only as objects of knowledge the three standing to one another in the relation of means, end to be realised by those means, and persons realising, and questions are asked as to those three only. There is no mention of, nor question referring to, the Unevolved.
Compare, e.g. the text which first says that the earth is merged in water, and further on 'the elements are merged in the Mahat, the Mahat in the Unevolved, the Unevolved in the Imperishable, the Imperishable in Darkness; Darkness becomes one with the highest divinity. And 'He of whom the earth is the body, &c. up to 'he of whom the Unevolved is the body; of whom the Imperishable is the body; of whom death is the body; he the inner Self of all beings, free from all evil, the divine one, the one God Narayana. And Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect, egoity thus eightfold is my nature divided.
That the general cause can be found only in the unevolved Pradhana, which consists of the three gunas in a state of equipoise and is unlimited with regard to space as well as time, follows from the limitedness of the particular things, viz. the Mahat, the ahankara, and so on. These latter things are limited like jars and so on, and hence incapable of originating the entire world.
Lower is this nature; other than this and higher know that nature of mine which has become the individual soul by which this world is supported. Remember that all beings spring from this; I am the origin and the dissolution of the whole Universe. And 'the Evolved is Vishnu, and the Unevolved, he is the Person and time.
It moreover cannot have the purport of teaching a certain order of succession, because the order stated contradicts the order established by other scriptural passages; such as the one beginning 'the earth is merged in water, and ending 'darkness becomes one. We hence hold to the conclusion that all effects originate from Brahman only, in so far as embodied in the Unevolved, and so on, and that the terms 'fire' and so on denote Brahman, which is the Self of all those substances.
It is the 'Unevolved' in the particular condition of the body, which in the text under discussion is called the 'Unevolved. 'On account of its capability, i.e. because Unevolved non-sentient matter, when assuming certain states and forms, is capable of entering on activities promoting the interest of man.
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