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uniting principle? With that kind of suggestion the Hindu will have nothing to do. Entranced by the absolute reality of the one Brahma he waits away the world of experience as a conjurer an optical delusion.
Into the maze of difliculties and inconsistencies which opens out here we need not go. The mani- fold modifications, adjustments, and the trimming down of the main thought which the Upanishads are driven to undertake belong to philosophy rather than religion. According to the Upanishads’ own definition of the (frame, everything that these works undertake: to say about anything other than the aft... seam is mere figure of speech, and every definition of the (frozen itself is also figure of speech. Every defi— nition is necessarily stopped by the words: “No, No ” (an anti). The Brahma has no attributes (rzz'rgzzgm). Yea, the Hindu when in the proper mood, advancing straight to the last consequence, looking neither to the right nor to the left, denies the possibility of knowing Brahma altogether. Tremen- dous paradox this, considering all depends upon the intuition of this very conception. In a conversation with hisWife Maitrey‘i’“ the great thinker Yajnavalkya asserts that there is no consciousness after death, be... cause there must be two in order that one should see
1 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 2. 4. 12 j”.
