The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

ignorance about the matter and the impossibility of
establishing the order of succession if the causal relation
is admitted clearly lead the wise to uphold, under all
conditions, the doctrine of ajati, or non-creation.
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The illustration of the seed and the sprout is something
which is yet to be proved. The illustration i.e. the middle
term, which itself is not yet proved, cannot be used for
establishing a proposition to be proved.
21
The ignorance regarding the antecedence and the
subsequence of cause and effect clearly proves the
absence of creation (ajati). If the jiva (dharma) has
really been horn, then why can you not point out its
antecedent cause?
22
Nothing whatsoever is born, either of itself or of another
entity. Nothing is ever produced, whether it be being or
non-being or both being and non-being.
23
The cause cannot be produced from a beginningless
effect; nor can the effect be produced from a
beginningless cause. That which is without beginning is
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