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 15

15.  Those again that are just unmanifest within,  and those that are just manifest without all those are mere products of imagination;   the differentiation again lies in being associated with different organs of sense.
"Those again that are just unmanifest within"

Unmanifest object of the mind,  whether thought of or dreamed of,  are presentations within the One consciousness,  As is the experiencing of mind itself.

"and those that are just manifest without"

Also objects seen as being manifest and reported by the senses are also just the projections of Absolute Knowledge within the That same One consciousness,  as is the experiencing of the senses.

"all those are mere products of imagination"

The meaning is,  All that exists within creation,  gross or subtle,  manifest forms or unmanifest thoughts,  are all displays of knowledge presented within this One consciousness.
What a person sees is within the mind is realised as imagination.  Also what a person sees through the senses should be realised as imagination because all this takes place within the One consciousness.

"the differentiation again lies in being associated with different organs of sense."

What is seen by the organ of mind arises from the same Absolute knowledge as that which is seen by the senses and reported to the mind.  Mind experience is a presentation within consciousness.  Just the same,  sense experience is also a presentation within this same single consciousness of existence.

Within the realm of Creation there is nothing that has,  of its own,  true independent  (dual)  existence.

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