418 Colonel Kennepy on the Védanta System. 
the Védas, and that consequently no change can have taken place in its 
original doctrine; for these sentences are continually occurring in San- 
cara’s commentary on the Séras of VyAsa, and in all Védinta works ; and 
they alone are fully sufficient to prove that it is a spiritual, and not a 
material pantheism, which is adopted by the Védanticas. Of these sen- 
tences the one said to be contained in the Rig Véda is, “This (the 
object contemplated, whether animate or inanimate) is Braum ;”* in the 
Yajur Véda, “1 am Braun ;”t in the same Véda, “Thou art it” (é e the 
Supreme Soul);{ and in the A?harva Véda, “ This soul is Braum.”§ There 
is also another celebrated text of the Védas which is continually quoted or 
referred to by Védanta writers, and which Sancara, in his commen- 
taries on the Séras, thus cites: ‘ Entity existed from the beginning, for 
there was one entity (the Supreme Soul) but not a second.” Then 
it wished, ‘let me become many, that beings may be produced.’”|| In 
another place, however, of his commentary, he adds these words to the first 
part of this quotation : * So this one [entity or real substance] was from the 
beginning soul only ;” and remarks, that this soul was BrauM, immortal, 
and self-existent. But Sancara equally quotes the text with which the 
Aitaréya Aranya Upanishad, translated by Mr. Cotregrooxe in his Essay on 
the Védas, commences, “ Originally this [universe] was indeed soul only, 
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* seta + Bearer 
4 aaaafa This sentence is given at greater length in the 8th section, 8th praputaca of 
the Chandogya Upanishad, in .which Upparaca thus addresses his son Sw£TaceETA: 
> 2 EN 
waaay qatar f waddaat all it which is the soul is real, and thou art 
it, O SwéTAcETA. 
§ TAMA Tata 
| FAqTAPACA AAT, CHAT ads aa gasy seas 
Comment on 5th sitra, Ist pad, Ist chapter. The words quoted in another place are: 
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a KATATE HHO ATS, Comment on 8d sitra, Ist pad, Ist chapter. 
The similar text in the Atareya Upanishad is: FTATATAS ARCATA AAT 
afar reraaaa area 
