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""76 THE DOCTRINE OF MAYAfit in with the import of language. It is selfilluminating,and to yield itsmeaningit demandsour self-consciousness, our living will, our whole self,our whole life, but not our speech, which is afterallinadequate.In order fully to realize such truths the intellectmust transcend itself, which it cannot do. Henceit has to be content with its blurred and indistinctvision. 1But, on the other hand, words have to beused for communicating truth, though the momentwe use them we land ourselves on quicksands.When we say, e.g., the world isnothing but anappearance," even so we use the term world,"and in so doing do supposeit to exist. Hence, inthe interpretation of the passages of the Upanisadswe must always confine our attention to the spiritunderlying the text and to the motives which ledthe sages to unite various standpoints in one text,which may seem to be conflicting if looked at merelyin the external.The degeneration of Pure Idealism the kernelof the Upanisads did not stop here. It went sofar as to turn into ultra-Realism and further oneven into Atheism, Deism, etc. The natural coursefor Pantheism was to turn into what we may callCreationism (Cosmogonism) The . identity of theAtman and the world, though granted, was yet far1 On the function of the intellect compare the brilliantremarks of Prof.Bergson in his L Evolution Creatrice.