416 Colonel Kewnepy on the Védanta System. 
VyA4sa; and throughout the whole of that voluminous work Sancara 
shows himself a determined maintainer of spiritual, but not of material pan- 
theism. To evince this it is merely necessary to quote the following pas- 
sages:— Thus the Supreme Soul is not affected by the maya of transitory 
existence.”* Another passage is as follows :—* In both the S’rudi and the 
Smriti, it is said that the maya, the sacti, the pracriti of the omniscient 
Lord is the seed from which transitory existence and delusion have 
originated.”+ I will merely add two more without the texts; the first is as 
follows :—* Persons skilled in the Védas say, that though it is said in the 
Védas that Braum is the immediate cause of the existence of this universe, 
still it is to be understood that it was produced by maya, without exertion on 
the part of Braum.”t The other, “Those who practise meditation and 
devout abstraction, behold, through the irradiation of their own souls, the 
mysterious nature with its qualities of the energy (sacti) of the Supreme 
Soul; which energy is also called avidyad, mdya, and by other names. It 
manifested itself in a mysterious manner of three colours, white, red, and 
black, representing the qualities of purity, impurity, and darkness ; and it 
is, through the infused power of Braun, the origin of all causes and effects 
connected with time. For though there is but one sole substance devoid 
of difference, and but one form, still are multitudinous forms displayed by 
maya.’§ 
But even in the Stéras of VyAsa the very term maya occurs at least once, 
as in this Sidra, which seems tomean “ all is maya, as the form of the 
Supreme Being is not manifest.”|| Sancara’s commentary, however, on 
4 TATTHATAT faqacar TaaTAas RaP ba Fal Comment upon the 9th Siitra of the 
Ist pad of the 2d chapter. 
+ Faas eaten: Gata he fay faer- 
AA 
chased Comment on the 15th Sitra of the same pad and chapter. 
+ Ineed scarcely remark, that to translate quotations from a prolix commentary Jiterally is 
quite out of the question ; and I have therefore only endeavoured to give the substance and true 
meaning of the passage quoted. 
§ Sancara, however, in general uses other terms than méyé, but all imply the same 
meaning and convey the same doctrine, namely, that this universe is a mere illusion, and that 
man, even in this life, may become so enlightened by the acquisition of divine knowledge, as to 
perceive that there is nothing real except the Supreme Soul, and that he is that soul. 
° Nn 
| ATATATAHTRA ATA AAAEARACATHL, 3a Sitra, 2d pad, 3d chapter—Mr. 
