Studies in the Origins of Buddhism c13.127

c13.127

A pantheistic answer to the query is, however, clearly to be discerned at places in the ṚS. Thus the Nāsadīya sūkta traces the universe to the Original One, and the Puruṣasūkta contains explicitly the germ of the monistic idea later elaborated in Vedānta that the sentient principle is at once the material as well as the efficient cause of the universe.