The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c5.s2.t2.8

c5.s2.t2.8

³¹ Also Kant’s axiom that the transcendental ideality of the world does not exclude its empiric reality, finds its full analogy in the concepts of Çankara: cf. p. 448, 6: “All empiric action is true, so long as the “knowledge of the soul is not reached, just as the actions in dream, “before awaking occurs. As long in fact as the knowledge of unity with “the true Self is not reached, one has not a consciousness of the unreality “of the procedure connected with standards and objects of know- “ledge and fruits of works, but every creature, under the designation of “‘I’ and ‘mine,’ takes mere transformations for the Self and for charac- “teristics of the Self, and on the other hand leaves out of consideration “their original Brahman-Selfhood; therefore before the consciousness