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""""DEVELOPMENT OF ITS CONCEPTION 101which has its origin in speech, while the truth is thatit is clay merely, thus," etc. The meaning of thispassage is, that if there is known a lump of claywhich really and truly isnothing but clay, there areknown thereby likewise all things made of clay, suchas jars, dishes, pails, and so on, all of which agree inhaving clay for their true nature. For these modifications and effects are names only, exist through ororiginate from speech only, while in reality thereexists no such thing as a modification,In so far asthey are names (individual effects distinguished bynames) they are untrue in so far as ;they are claythey are true. This parallel instance is given withreference to Brahman ; applying the phrase vdcdrambhanathe instanceto the case illustrated byquoted, we understand that the entire body ofeffects has no existence apart from Brahman.Later on again the text, after having declared thatfire, water and earth are the effects of Brahman,maintains that the effects of these three elementshave no existence apart from them (Chand. Up. vi.4. i).Other sacred texts 1 also, whose purpose is tointimate the unity of the Self, are to be quoted herein accordance withthe othersof the Sutra.Onany other assumption it would not be possible tomaintain that by the knowledge of one thing everything becomes known. We therefore must adopt1 Cf. Chand. vi. 8. 7 ; vii. 25. 2 ; Byhad. ii. 4. 6 ; iv. 4. 25 ;Mund. ii. 2. n.