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knowledge (vidya proper) of the One Existence
or Reality :–' तदेव ब्रह्म त्वं विद्धि नेदं यदिदमुपासते '
"That is Brahman which you know thus, not
this which you thus worship." This sentence is
repeated again in successive passages in the
context where it occurs so as to impress the
difference between the knowledge of the higher
Brahman and the devout meditation on the
lower Brahman on the mind of the disciple.
We maintain also that the same contrast is
brought out in the famous
passage of
Chhandogya-Upanishad :—' ìfùGA¶ GIÁÏÈS-
"In the beginning, Dear, there was Sat
(Existence, Reality) only-One only without
a second." The variety and multiplicity of the
phenomenal universe subsequent to creation is
here contrasted with the One Reality previously
existing. It is impossible to maintain for a
moment that the Upanishads do not propound-
for they do so in a hundred places in all possible
modes of expression-this distinction between a
higher and lower existence and knowledge of
which the latter does not, while the former does,
lead to final release from Samsara.
Dr. Thibaut proceeds :-" If we have not
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knowledge (vidya proper) of the One Existence
or Reality :–' तदेव ब्रह्म त्वं विद्धि नेदं यदिदमुपासते '
"That is Brahman which you know thus, not
this which you thus worship." This sentence is
repeated again in successive passages in the
context where it occurs so as to impress the
difference between the knowledge of the higher
Brahman and the devout meditation on the
lower Brahman on the mind of the disciple.
We maintain also that the same contrast is
brought out in the famous
passage of
Chhandogya-Upanishad :—' ìfùGA¶ GIÁÏÈS-
"In the beginning, Dear, there was Sat
(Existence, Reality) only-One only without
a second." The variety and multiplicity of the
phenomenal universe subsequent to creation is
here contrasted with the One Reality previously
existing. It is impossible to maintain for a
moment that the Upanishads do not propound-
for they do so in a hundred places in all possible
modes of expression-this distinction between a
higher and lower existence and knowledge of
which the latter does not, while the former does,
lead to final release from Samsara.
Dr. Thibaut proceeds :-" If we have not
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