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 87

87. The dual, with the object and with its perception, is fancied or, looked upon as "practical"; the dual without the object and with its perception is looked upon as "pure practical".

This verse admits to empirical reality. That is, in the realm of creation there are (a duality) perception and the perceived objects.
The non Realised aspirant declares the need to accept both as "practical" The Realised Sage, also having perception but through divine discrimination sees unreality instead of an object in name only, as in the clay jar being earth and so forth. This is described as "super Practical"

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