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 4
4. As the earthen jar etc. being dissolved, the spaces etc. are dissolved in the Akasa, so are dissolved the individual souls here in Atman.
If all the clay pots were to be broken the space they apparently enclosed and the space that is everywhere would be unchanged, the pots can rise up from the earth and dissolve back into the earth but space remains unchanged.
Likewise with the forms of all beings. These forms, these individual names appear to be born, come into being, but in truth are all of the One Absolute Self. There is nothing that has true individuality.