SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

132 THE VETASVATARA UPANISHAT.
Only One, Nirguna (Being) vi. n. And in Verse 16, he is
called the first cause, himself uncaused, the all-knower, the
master of Nature and Man. And by the supreme statement
"Ekohi Rudra nadvittiya tasthe, (There is only One Rudra,
they do not allow a second) the complete subordination of all
other things to Him is clearly postulated. There is nothing
else in His presence, as no Asat can subsist in the Presence of
the Sat, as no darkness can subsist in the presence of light.
which all other
And Light, he is called (iii, 12) the Light, by
lights, the sun, the moon, and the stars and the lightnings are
lighted, (vi. 14) and He is the great Purusha, like the Sun in
lustre, beyond darkness, (iii. 8.)
There is only one other passage which we have to quote
while we are dealing with the three eternal postulates of this
Upanishat. These are the Verses 8 and 9 in the first Adhyaya
itself. In these also the distinctions between the Supreme God,
and the bound soul, as Isa and AnfSa, Jiia and Ajna, and the
third, Pradhana, Unborn though perishable and ever changing,
are finely drawn.
In dealing with the personality of God, who is called in the
Upanishats, as Deva, Hara, Vasi, Siva, Purusha, Brahman,
Paramatma, Isa, and ISvara, &c,. we have to remark that the
Upanishat makes no distinction between a Higher and a Lower
Brahman ; rather, there are no statements made about the
Lower God or Gods, except one verse in V. 3, where, the
Supreme Lord and Mahatma, is said to have created
the Lords, and Brahma or Hiranyagarbha is referred to
as such a lord. But ever} statement made to God, by any
of the names, we have mentioned above, clearly refers to the
one*, without a second, the Highest Brahman, who is also
* Our learned Lord Bishop of Madras complains that the educated
Hindu has only to choose one out of the six systems of Philosophy, and
that he has no good practical religion and we kindly invite his attention
to this paper, and then judge for himself and see if Hindu Philosophy and
Religion is, after all, really so poor.