ABSTRACT
The Brahman is one without a second. Yet the world is not unreal. "The Upanisads do not deny the reality of the world, but they identify it with Brahman who transcends it. He is One without a second; He is the All. If all is Brahman, then there can be nothing but Brahman, and therefore the existence of All, sarvam idam, does not contradict the unity of Brahman, does not establish the reality of bheda, difference." "One particular selfexpression may disappear into its source and continent, but does not and cannot abolish the phenomenal universe. The One is for ever, and the Many are for ever because the One is for ever. So long as there is a sea, there will be waves."2
