The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c7.s5.t2.16

c7.s5.t2.16

"Then it comes to this, that the substances themselves "persist, *e. g.*, milk, through its existence as sour milk, etc.; "that they take the name of effect, and that we cannot think "of the effect as different from the cause, even if we tried "for a hundred years. And as it is the original cause which, "up to the last effect, appears in the form of this or that "effect, like an actor in all possible parts, it is thereby logically proved that the effect exists before its manifestation and "is identical with the cause" (p. 468, 10—469, 1).