Sanskrit: उपादानं प्रपञ्चस्य मृद्भाण्डस्येव कथ्यते।  अज्ञानं चैव वेदान्तैस्तस्मिन्नष्टे क्व विश्वता।   
English:  The Vedanta texts declare ignorance to be verily the material (cause) of the phenomenal world just as earth is of a jar. That (ignorance) being destroyed, where can the universe subsist ?