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. The creation which has been authoritatively mentioned otherwise by illustrations of earth, iron, sparks etc, that is a device for the grasping of the true position; no difference whatsoever between Jiva and Atman exists.
Referring again to scriptural descriptions of Creation having proceeded from a duality of The Absolute and a lower Brahman and so forth, this verse is restating that those description were mere devices for setting up the situation where explanations could be grasped, to enable words to convey a meaningful understanding. It is again restated that duality does not exist. All individual souls are in reality the One Absolute Eternal Self.