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tinction between a lower conditioned Brahman
and a higher unconditioned Brahman) becomes
unquestionable fact.
Dr. Thibaut next takes up the question
"whether the Upanishads maintain the Maya
doctrine or not." He says: " we may admit
that some passages, notably of the Briha-
daranyaka, contain at any rate the germ of
the later developed Maya doctrine. " A
statement which appears to Dr. Thibaut but
a "germ " seems to be a full development to
others, as for instance to Mr. A. E. Gough and
Dr. Deussen. At least we have here a kind of
admission from Dr. Thibaut himself which stul-
tifies his emphatic assertion in another place-
already quoted by us at the commencement of
this discussion that the Upanishads "do not
hold the doctrine of the unreality of the world.
Dr. Thibaut holds, however, that "that affords
no valid reason for interpreting Maya into other
texts which gives a satisfactory sense without
that doctrine, etc.," and that "this remark app-
lies in the very first place to all the accounts
of the creation of the physical universe." For
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tinction between a lower conditioned Brahman
and a higher unconditioned Brahman) becomes
unquestionable fact.
Dr. Thibaut next takes up the question
"whether the Upanishads maintain the Maya
doctrine or not." He says: " we may admit
that some passages, notably of the Briha-
daranyaka, contain at any rate the germ of
the later developed Maya doctrine. " A
statement which appears to Dr. Thibaut but
a "germ " seems to be a full development to
others, as for instance to Mr. A. E. Gough and
Dr. Deussen. At least we have here a kind of
admission from Dr. Thibaut himself which stul-
tifies his emphatic assertion in another place-
already quoted by us at the commencement of
this discussion that the Upanishads "do not
hold the doctrine of the unreality of the world.
Dr. Thibaut holds, however, that "that affords
no valid reason for interpreting Maya into other
texts which gives a satisfactory sense without
that doctrine, etc.," and that "this remark app-
lies in the very first place to all the accounts
of the creation of the physical universe." For
""
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