Nevertheless, as the uncertainty of opinion in regard to cosmogony is quite as great as that in respect of absorption, all the vagueness cannot properly be attributed to the efforts of later systematizers to bring the Upanishads into their more or less orthodox Vedantism.] [Footnote 28: In 4.10.5 _kam_ is pleasure, one with ether as _brahma_, not as wrongly above, p.

222, the god Ka.] [Footnote 29: This Upanishad appears to be sectarian, perhaps an early Civaite tract (dualistic), if the allusion to Rudra Civa, below, be accepted as original.] [Footnote 30: As is foreshadowed in the doctrine of grace by V[=a]c in the Rig Veda, in the _Cvet_, the _Katha_, and the _Mund_.

Upanishads (_K.2.

23; M_.3.2.

3), but nowhere else, there enters, with the sectarian phase, that radical subversion of the Upanishad doctrine which becomes so powerful at a later date, the teaching that salvation is a gift of God.