( 38 ।। principle is to be followed in interpreting 'this' in the passage we are now considering. Sat is the one reality. There is nothing apart from it. But that reality is not, as has been already stated, a simple reality. Matter is its permanent ad junct. It was said that matter remains in a subt:e state. with no forms. no names. no difference what soever during the titne of destruction. Bnt during the time of creation it is in a gross state. Though this matter has changes and accordingly has different states it remains always an adjunct to Sat. So Sat is always wishishtc, a composite entity, and not a simple entity. This fact explains the name of the philosophy, Visishtadvaita, the view of oneness of truth which is a composite one. Sat possesses very many qualities also. It was said it is an intelligent being. It is omniscient. It has will and skill to do whatever it pleases, and its will never fails.
- Having created the three elements”, Uddalaka
continued. the God sayffentering into these gods through this jiva-self I shall manifest forms and names. Of these I shall make each one a triple one. The elc ments are mentiored here as gods because they are forms of God that dwells in them. The three elements. fire. water and earth which were the first creation of Sat were incapable of producing the world and things in it. So they were admixed with each other, the process being called triort- korce or triple-makingEach one of them was divided into two halves, and one half of each of them
