GOD MORNING : ukteh sabdantaraccha 11.1.18(152) From reasoning and from another Sruti text (the same is clear. This relation between cause and effect is established.) Yukteh: from reasoning; Sabda-antarat: from another Sruti text; Cha: and. That the effect exists before its origination and is non-different from the cause follows from reasoning and also from a further scriptural passage or another text of the Vedas. The same fact is clear from logic or reasoning also. Otherwise, everything could have been produced from anything. If non-being is the cause, then why should there be an inevitable sequence? Why should curds be produced from milk and not from mud? It is impossible even within thousands of years to bring about an effect which is different from its cause. Particular causes produce particular effects only. The relation of cause and effect (e.g. the relation of mud and pot) is a relation of identity. The cause of our thinking and saying the pot exists is the fact that the lump of clay assumes a particular form of a neck, hollow belly, etc., while the material remains as clay only. On the contrary we think and say the jar does not exist, when the clay pot is broken into piece. Hence existence and non-existence show only their different conditions. Non-existence in this connection does not mean absolute non-existence. This is reasoning or Yukti. Just as an actor puts on many disguises and is yet the same man, so also the Ultimate Cause (Brahman) appears as these diverse objects and yet is the same. Hence the cause exists before the effects and is non-different from the effect. The effect exists in the cause in an unmanifested state. It is manifested during creation. That is all. An absolutely non-existent thing like the horns of a hare can never come into existence. The cause cannot produce altogether a new thing which was not existing in it already. Further, we find from the well-known passage of the Chhandogya Upanishad, In the beginning, my dear, there was only existence, one without a second (Chh. Up. VI-2-1), that the effect exists even before creation and is non-different from its cause. The author now gives some illustrations in order to confirm the doctrine that effect is identical with the cause.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 01:39:51 +0000