The Philosophy of the Upanishads c10.s3.t2.7
The Philosophy of the Upanishads c10.s3.t2.7
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c10.s3.t2.7
To these passages also the doctrine of the disappearance of the universe in Brahman appears to be still unfamiliar. And therefore we must hesitate to find it with S'ankara in the mystical name *Tajjalân*,¹ discussed above;² since this idea is still foreign to all the rest of the Upanishads, and the conception of Brahman as the cause of the rise, continuance and disappearance of individual beings is sufficient to explain the term. Still less can we refer the words of Vâj. Samh. 32. 8,