The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c7.s2.t2.8

c7.s2.t2.8

Under these circumstances, it is comprehensible that Çaṅkara here contents himself with references to the scripture according to which, with the knowledge of Brahman, all is known, and in which Brahman is compared to the clay, all the transformations of which are also clay; as, for example, it is expressly said: Before the beginning of creation, there was one only, without a second, Brahman desired to become manifold, he himself made himself, he is the birthplace of beings, he limits them from himself, and reabsorbs them into himself, as the spider with her thread, etc. etc. (p. 398—403). In conclusion, our author disposes of the objections given above, and the appeals to experience, by the explanation (translated above p. 93), that we need not here remain in accord with experience, for here we have not to do with an object of rational knowledge (anumânam), but with revelation (403, 7), and further refers to subsequent investigations.