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 31
31. As are seen dream and Maya (illusion), as is seen the Gandharva city (castle in the air), so is seen this universe by the well versed in the Vedanta's.
"As are seen dream and Maya (illusion), as is seen the Gandharva city (castle in the air)"
For the wise, their first priority in all things is to ascertain the truth. The wise come to realise that the appearance of duality with the apparent many forms of creation is indeed an illusion explained as Maya.
The "castle in the air" symbolises illusion and unreality.
"so is seen this universe by the well versed in the Vedanta's"
Those wise ones who have ascertained through higher discrimination, the emptiness of true being of all material forms, see no reality in the material universe.