The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

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Those who say that the effect is the cause of the cause
and that the cause is the cause of the effect maintain,
actually, that the creation takes place after the manner
of the birth of father from son.
16
If causality is asserted, then the order in which cause
and effect succeed each other must be stated. If it is said
that they appear simultaneously, then, being like the two
horns of an animal, they cannot be mutually related as
cause and effect.
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The cause that you affirm, cannot be established as the
cause if it is produced from the effect. How can the
cause, which itself is not established, give birth to the
effect?
If the cause is produced from the effect and if the
effect is, again, produced from the cause, which of the
two is born first upon which depends the birth of the
other?
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The inability to reply to the question raised above, the
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