Mandukya Upanishad

With an Advaita Commentary from our Understanding

by Kenneth Jaques | 31,733 words

The Mandukya Upanishad is a short, just twelve verses, description of the material manifestation and the eventual return to unmanifest form of the Universe....

Verse 27

27. Ever in the three paths of time, the mind for all time does not contact the cause; how would there be its causeless false impression or, modification?

From the truth or reality expressed in the previous verses concerning existence and reality, comes a deeper more subtle perception. Considering any or all of the three states of perceived consciousness, what has been talked of or considered so far is the reality of phenomena sensed or detected or perceived in those states. It has been stated and proved that such phenomena are ultimately unreal, that is empty of true existence; The intimation or assumption of which is that such impressions have therefore been false. But the ultimate truth of non-duality, Advaita tells us that a singularity, The Absolute Self Alone exists. In truth this means that "other" objects such as clay jars have never existed in any form, even as reshaped earth, because such earth itself does not exist in reality. Because In reality, Consciousness as The Self Alone Exists. Returning to the subtle meaning talked of at the beginning of this verse, and considering that Consciousness Alone Exists, whatever arises in Consciousness cannot therefore be wrong, it cannot be a mistake, it cannot be said that the seeing of a clay pot was wrong because there is no such thing as a "correct" clay pot in reality; So whatever arises in consciousness must be correct because that perception alone exists; So if the perception is of a clay pot that does not exist that perception in itself is correct.

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