Satkāryavāda

“… the effect must be viewed as 'existent,' through and in the Self of the cause, before its origination as well as after it …”

“… there is understood to be non-difference (identity) of cause and effect. The effect is this manifold world consisting of ether and so on; the cause is the highest Brahman. Of the effect it is understood that in reality it is non-different from the cause, i.e. has no existence apart from the cause.”

“Applying this instance of the piece of cloth, first folded and then unfolded, to the general case of cause and effect, we conclude that the latter is non-different from the former.”

“The non-difference of the world from Brahman, the highest cause, follows from 'what begins with the word ârambhana'—which proves such non-difference …”

“As threads when joined in a peculiar cross-arrangement are called a piece of cloth, thus acquiring a new name, a new form, and new functions, so it is with Brahman also.”