Indian Philosophy v2.c26.s17.8

v2.c26.s17.8

In his account of causality Śaṃkara makes the causal nature the svabhāva, or the sāmānya or the universal, while the effect is regarded as a condition, avasthā, or viśeṣa.³ “There are in the world many sāmānyas with their viśeṣas—both conscious and unconscious. All these sāmānyas in their graduated series are included and comprehended in one great sāmānya, *i.e.* in Brahman’s nature as a mass of intelligence.”⁴ To understand the nature of this universal reality is to know all the particulars involved in it.⁵