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 22

22.  as Vedas,  the Veda knowers;   and as Sacrifices,  the Knowers of them   (sacrifices)  as the Enjoyer,  the Enjoyer knowers;   and as the Object of enjoyment,  the Knowers of it.
"as Vedas...Sacrifices...the Enjoyer...the Object of enjoyment,  the knowers (of them)"

Again,  The Vedas,  Sacrifices,  objects of enjoyment and all such considerations are taken by the deluded to have an individual reality.  Through their delusion they are fooled by labels into considering each as worthy of a school of knowledge in themselves,  and that once attained this piece of knowledge would contribute to completing a "jigsaw puzzle" of information that will reveal the Absolute.  In reality,  in the light of the Knowledge of the Absolute Non-Dual Self,  the consideration of labels is to contemplate only the toe of the Elephant,  meaning that the totality of all labels together make one big label but it is still not the thing itself.

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