The Light of the East November 1939

It is a thorough examination of the attitude of modern science towards what the Professor rightly calls the miracle' of causality and at the same time a most important contribtion to a fuller understanding of the three principal Indian views on causality : the asatkiirya of the Vaisesika the satkarya of the Satukhya and the vivarta of the Advaita. [...] 3. "Either the effect does contain something more than what is contained in the cause which aditional something distinguishes Letween the cause and the effect ; or else the cause being wholly idetical with the effect the distinction between the cause and the effect disappears wholly and the law of causatien ceases to have any meaning. [...] Occupying in the Advaztascidhana—which proceeds through it from the common view that the changing is real to the intuition that only the unchanging Brahman is so— the position of what the Samsksefiasanrctka (II. [...] par/mil/la of the Supreme and the realisation of the sildramati that the unchangeable Brahman alone is " without even a taste of duality either internal or external of the same or of a different kind " the vivataverda has often been made to lean towards either of these two extremes especially the latter. [...] The educated will demand a hundred proofs for the existence of the Creator but the uneducated peasant sees Him clearly in every object : the sky the earth the seasons the rain the river the field the insect the bird or the beast.