Studies in the Epics and Puranas c8.21

c8.21

"In its noble simplicity, in the loftiness of its philosophic vision, it is possibly the most admirable bit of philosophy of olden times." And again, "No translation can ever do justice to the beauty of the original."¹⁰ Instead of the view of creation by an external agency, this hymn propounds the view that the sensible world is the spontaneous unfolding of the supra-sensible first cause. The conception is wholly impersonal and free from all mythological elements. It contains the quintessence of monistic thought anticipating Upaniṣadic monism.