THE Doctrine of Maya - HolyBooks.com

"""DEVELOPMENT OF ITS CONCEPTION 81Brahman and the individual Atman isidentity ofnot denied, yet a distinction is clearlye.g.,in the following chief passagedrawn out,Ajam ekam lohitasuklakrsnam.bahvih prajah srjamanam sarupah,ajo hy eko jusamano misetejahaty enam bhuktabhogam ajo nyah.dva suparna sayuja sakhayasamanam vrksam parisasvajate,tayor anyah pippalam svadv attianasnann anyo bhicakasiti.samane vrkse puruso nimagnahaniSaya socati muhyamanah,justam yada pasyaty anyam Isamasya mahimanam iti vitasokah."Svet. Up. iv. 5, 6, 7.Passages exhibiting a Pantheistic and Idealistictrend of thought are not wanting in this Up. also.These stages are set down side byside to suit thevariety of human understanding. 1 The type oftheism we have indicated here, viz., that whichmakes Brahman a personal god and distinguishesHim from the individual soul, isperhaps most acceptable to the masses, but we do not hesitate to callTheism a lower conception than the Pure Idealismsketched above, we call it a mere pictorial way of1In Svet. Up. i. 6, the distinction spoken of above isexplained as illusory. The theistic tinge comes in when itis said that the removal of this illusion depends on the graceof the Lord.