6 ] are we know evolved from matter an not from Sat. Thee is no identity therefore between Sat and and the world. These are entirely distinct and dife. rent from each other. FIow is then this in the sen tence put in coordisation with Sat ? The answer is that this co-ordination is intended to teach us sone thing. The world or a!ny thing in it is not what our ordinary cx:brience shows it to be. I here is scme thing in it. dwelling within it, some thing to which it is an adjunct, some thing of which it is a form,
- This here neans that which has this for its form.
that which exists in this formfrhite we know is a colour The colour of mil ; is white we say. But when we say Milk is hite; white means the substance which has the white cclour, because 'white' is put in co-ordination ith nik, a substance. Similar is the case here. This ordinarily means the world we secSvetakutu or any one else would take the word only in this sense and accordingly the sentence would seem to carry the idea that the world was previously the Existing one alone Vhen however one realises that to be consistent with the following statement f[t say I shall become many ‘the existent onc' in this sentence should mean an in telligent being, the question at once arises, ‘How could this world have been tho intcligent being previously ? The identity seems impossible. Since however the statement is an authoritative one and therefore cannot be rejected as an incorrect and meaningless one we have to interpret it so that it may convey a sensible and correct idea. We saw in Mik is white white has an extended meaning. Like wise ‘tiiis in the Upani shadic pessage under consideration must have an ex