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can ‘being’ come out of ‘non-being?”’ asks the Chﬁndogya Upanishad (6. 2. 2). Moreover it ignores the previously postulated “ That Only ” which by its terms eliminates “non-being.” The poet here no- questionably entangles himself in shnm~profundity; he had better left out all reference to “ non-being”; it is a term handled by the Hindus with a. degree of dcftness which is in the inverse ratio to their fondness for it.

The hymn continues with a mystical ﬁfth stanza which is obscure, and in any case unimportant. Then it takes a wholly new turn into the direction of philosophic scepticism. This is quite unexpected in the wake of “That Only,” in Whose mind creative desire had sprung forth: it ought to, aided by its own or the sages’ creative fervor, go on to create the

World, if it does anything at all: SIXTH STANZA.

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Who emwew Z/zen from whence it some to hazing? ”

SEVENT II STANZA.

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