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"DEVELOPMENT OF ITS CONCEPTION 67(Trans.)He knows what is to be known, but no one knows him ;they call him the first, the great Purusa.In vi. 8-12 is a beautiful description of the natureof the Atmanna tasya karyam karanam na vidyate. . . netaresam."(Trans.)There is no effect and no cause of him, no one is seenlike unto him or better his ; high power is revealed as manifold, as inherent, acting as power and knowledge.There is no master of him in the world, no ruler of him,he is the cause, the lord of the lordsnot even a sign of him ;of the organs, and there is of him neither parent nor lord,That only god who spontaneously covered himself, likea spider, with threads drawn from Nature (Pradhana),grant us the imperishable Brahman.He is the one God, hidden in all beings, all-pervading,the self within all beings, watching over all works, dwellingin all beings, the witness, the perceiver, the only one, freefrom qualities.He is the one ruler of the many who are free from actions,he who makes the one seed manifold ;the wise who perceive him within their self, to them belongs eternal happiness, not to others.Svet. Up. vi. 8-12.An examination of the other Upanisads also willbear out that the conception of the sole Reality ofBrahman is not missing in them. In some it ismore strongly emphasized, in others it is cloudedover by more realistic tendencies. This extremeidealism which refused to grant reality to the worldseemed to be rather too advanced for the ordinaryunderstanding, which could not reconcile the fact