The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c7.s6.t1.2

c7.s6.t1.2

In the beginning of the preceding Chapter (above p. 255) we saw how our author infers the identity of Brahman and the world from the identity of cause and effect. Yet this philosophical derivation of the chief position of the whole system of the Vedānta appears as a mere supplement. The same proposition has already been brought forward and explained on a theological basis (2, 1, 14); p. 443, 12: "The effect "is the manifested world, beginning with Ākāça; the cause is "the highest Brahman. With this cause, in the sense of the "highest reality (*paramārthataḥ*), the effect is identical, hav"ing no existence beyond it. Why is this?—Because of the "word of the Scripture, as to change depending only on "words, etc."