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stem, usually known as the S[=a]nkhya.] [Footnote 59: And attributed to Pata[=n.]jali. Compare Deussen, _System des Ved[=a]nta,_ p. 20.] [Footnote 60: Born In 788. But some scholars refer him to the seventh century. See IA. xiii. 95; xvi. 41. His name, a title of Civa, indicates his nominal sect.] [Footnote 61: For the meaning of Ved[=a]nta (whether 'end of Veda,' or 'goal of Veda') compare Deussen, _loc. cit._ p. 3, note (above, p. 253, note).] [Footnote 62: The Supreme Spirit or All-Spirit is either purely non-dualistic or qualifiedly non-dualistic; in the latter event he is, says the sectary, identical with Vishnu, who may be represented either by Krishna or R[=a]ma (sub-sects). Pure non-duality (unconditioned _[=a]tm[=a]_) was taught by Cankara.] [Footnote 63: Gough, _Philosophy of the Upanishads_.. Compare Williams, _loc. cit_. In our own view the unsystematic Upanishads teach both doctrines (above, p. 228, note).] [Footnote 64: Before K[=a]m[=a]nuja it was taught by C[=a]ndilya that _brahma_ (and the individual spirit) was conditioned, a doctrine supposed to be that of the old Bh[=a]gavatas or P[=a][.n]car[=a]tras; but this is quite uncertain. The C[=a]ndilyan chapter of the Ch[=a]ndogya Upanishad (above, p. 221) may be thus interpreted, _vis_, that the (conditioned) individual spirit is identical with _brahma_.] [Footnote 65: Thibaut, _Introduction to the Ved[=a]nta S[=u]tras_, SBE. XXXIV. p. XXXI; Deussen, _System des Ved[=a]nta_, p.469.] [Footnote 66: Philosophical illusion, _m[=a]n[=a]_, appears first in late Upanishads.] [Footnote 67: The author of the Dabist[=a]n (seventeenth century) tells a Berkeleyan story in regard to Cankara's doctrine of illusion. His enemies wished to test his belief in his own philosophy; so they drove an elephant at him, on which the philosopher ran away. "Ho!" they jeered, "Did you not maintain that all was a mere illusion? Then an elephant is illusion. Yet you take to flight before it." "Yes," replied the philosopher, "all is illusion; there was no elephant, and there was no flight" (II. 4).] [Footnote 68: The Sm[=a]rta (orthodox) Brahman believes, on the other hand, that Vishnu, Civa, and Brahm[=a] are all mere forms of the Supreme [=A]l
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