[ 49 | “Before the creation of (separalo) visible things. the universe existed as a mass of nebulous vapour. The Supreme Being emerged out of that : and from ihe Supreme Being carine Prajapali or the lord of creation. Prajapati created the gods. and the gods began ło worship the Truo and Hiernal Being." But in the Chhandogya il is said. “The Supreme Being created sorce () r sire, and from ihis force was created water". Apparently, there would seem to be some inconsistency between the above sayings. buì in point of faci ihore is no inconsistency of oll. li was with the emergence of ihe all-glorious Supreme Being ihał force or glory musi have been first created in the world, and the contact with this supreme glory musi have converted vapour into water. Hence there is no inconsistency in the saying that waler was created out of force or sire. We have said before ihai, according to Weslern scholars, the universe was originally Յ IՈՅՏՏ of nebulous vapour- li will now be seen ihal lhe above passages lend countenance io this iheory; and it inay not be wrong to conclude that it was a study of the (spanishads which set Western scholars upon the irack of this line of speculation. This seems all the more plausible in view of the fact that our scriptures are certainly of a far inore ancient dało ihan ihe science and philosophy of the Westerners. 4
