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Llla : "But is it not so, Mother !, that effects differ from
causes ? The lump of earth can hold no water. But the jar
made from that earth will do so."

SarasvatT : "An effect which proceeds from a cause with
the help of instrumental causes may show some difference from
that cause. Say, then, what thing's of this world were the
causes of that other world of thy husband's ? It seems to me
that all the things of that world were born of the elements
belonging" to it. If these components had gone there from this
world, how would this world be here now ? What, too,
supposing that this world was the cause of that, could be the
other helping causes in such case which would help to make
it different from this ? The instrumentality that arises even
in the absence of other causes, is not different from the first
cause, i. e., belongs to thit first cause itself, which is therefore
material and efficient as well as instrumental cause. Such is
the experience of all." (This identity of all the various kinds
of causes in One Cause occurs only in the single case of Param"
Atrm, which undergoes no change It-Self, but carries all
change within It-Self, eternally).

LTia : ^iVlay it be that the memory of my husband took
that dense and solid shape ? I think that memory was the
cause. And this world is the cause of that memory."

SarasvatT : iiMy daughter !, as Memory is of the nature of
Akasha, so too is that which is born of that memory. The world
of thy husband, though 'experienced' by thee, was only Akasha.
But while thou wast in it, was it not to thee as real as this is
now ? Didst thou not see that world broad-based in space ?
Didst thou not see that night succeeded day there even as here?'9

Lila : "This world, too, then may be like that world of
my husband's, all composed of the Akasha of Memory ?"

SarasvatT : "It is even so. And as that false world of
thy husband is to thee, so too is this world to me,"