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 60
60. The designation of eternal and non eternal is not significant when all entities are unoriginated; where words (lit. alphabet,letters), do not function (lit. exist), discrimination is not spoken of there that is, cannot be said to have any scope.
Such descriptions or labels as eternal or transient are the words of creation only. That is, the words themselves do not exist. This verse adds that discrimination has no place in the non-existent because there is nothing to discriminate between.
This will be understood better if one were to consider the fact of Consciousness Alone Existing. Consciousness, Absolute Knowledge, means Truth and Reality Alone Existing. With all knowing, all truth, what need is there of discrimination or decision or any movement whatsoever?