A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy c6.s3.9

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19. However this may be on the physiological side, we may say that the Upanishadic philosophers definitely raised the psychological question of the relation between body and soul. The Maitri Upanishad, though it is a late Upanishad, raises the question of an efficient cause, and in Platonic fashion endows the soul with the power of motion. It tells us that there were certain sages in ancient times called the Vālakhilyas who went to the Prajāpati Kratu and asked him who was the driver of the chariot of the body : " The body, venerable Sir, is verily like an unmoving cart ; may your Honour be pleased to tell us if you know who is the mover of it." And the Upanishad tells us that the