THE Doctrine of Maya - HolyBooks.com

""""(""DEVELOPMENT OF ITS CONCEPTION 77from being transparent to many who had a crazefor the concrete. They would argue thus The:Atman is One, and the world is the Many how;then could the Atman be one with the world ?The notion of identity, therefore, not being transparent, lost its force, and was supplanted by a stillmore empirical conception, viz., that of causality,according to which the Atman is the cause and theworld proceeds from it as an effect. This stage ofthought prominently appears in Taitt. Up. ; in thisthe chief passages areTasmat etasmad va atmanah . . .So kamayata bahu syampurusah."Taitt. ii. i. i.. . . tat srstva tad evanupravisat."Ibid. ii. 6.Yato va imani bhutani . . . tad Brahmeti,."Ibid. iii. i.Sa iman lokan asrjata."Ait. Up.i. 2.Such ideas are alsofound scattered over almostall the other Upanisads. 1 The most eloquent passage on the subject is the analogy of the spider andthe sparks. Just as the spider goes forth from itselfby means of its threads, as from the fire the tinysparks fly out, so from this Atman all the spirits of1 Cf. for example, Brh. i. 2. 5. (tena Atmana sarvam idamasrjata "),i. 4. i, i. 4. 5, i. 4. 10, ii. i. 20 ;Chan. iii. 19. i,vi. 2. i, vi. 3. 2, vi. 3. 3. vii. 26. i atmatah eva idamsarvam") ;Mund. i. i. 7, ii. i. i, ii. i. 4,ii. i. 9 ;Mandukya