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"""44 THE DOCTRINE OF MAYAMe have the gods in many forms displayed,Me, living everywhere and entering all things,"she repeats the same thought we have already referredto, which again is expressed by the Rsi Dirghatamaswhile praising AgniOf the one existence, the sages speak in diverse ways."-R.V. i.164.And the same thought was later on brought out byYaska (who lived about the fifth century, B.C.) :The One Atman issung in many ways (Nir.vii. 5, Roth s ed., p. n). Some of the other Vedichymns in which this conception of the underlyingunity of being is brought out are R.V. x. 81, 82,90, 121, etc., which we can only refer to, instead oftranslating here. All this clearly shows that thisidea of unity is as old as the Vedic civilization, thatthe ancient Indian Rsis were quite aware of the oneness of being and gave a poetic expression to thesame thought in beautiful strains.manyIt is needless to multiply instances from the otherthree Vedas, since the R.V. is the chief source ofthese and is in itself the oldest and most importantof the other Vedas areone. Most of the hymnsbodily transferred from the R.V. and arranged indifferent ways to meet the spirit and requirementsof each. We may, however, note in passing thatthe same idea of the unity of being isthe following stanzas from the A.V.discovered in