Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge c6.81

c6.81

(27) It is not only the present plurality that has to be accounted for but the origin of this plurality. Here Uddālaka uncritically accepts the earlier mythological notions and says that Being *wishes* to multiply and procreate and produces heat (6 2.3) Heat (tejas) produces water (apas) and water food (annam) (6 2.3, 4) Empirical evidence is adduced in favour of this causal sequence,¹ where it is pointed out that when we are hot, water (i.e. tears or perspiration) is produced (6.2.3) and that water in the form of rain produces food (6.2.4).