The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c5.s5.t2.7
The System of the Vedânta according to Bâdarâyana's Brahma-Sûtras and Çankara's Commentary c5.s5.t2.7
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Çañkara expresses himself even more strongly in discussing the same point in another place. To the objection that the Brahman can only be *causa efficiens* and not also *materialis*, because experience (*loka*) shows that only a *causa efficiens*, as for instance, the potter, can be endowed with knowledge.¹ he answers (p. 403, 7): "It is not necessary that it should be here the same as in experience; for this subject [Brahman] is not known by inference (anumânam), but only by revelation (çabda), and it is therefore [only] necessary here that [which is to be proved] it should be in accordance with revelation, and this shows that the knowing Îçvara (Lord) is the causa materialis [of the world]" (cf. p. 1144, 13).