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....

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Verse 6

6. The disputants (Dvaitins) wish to prove the origination of the entity which is verily unoriginated. How indeed can an unborn, and therefore, immortal entity, pass on to mortality?

Dvaitins, dualists, need to prove origination is what is the meaning here. But again the assertion is that an eternal entity cannot become born, be subject to birth because what has a beginning has an end, how can the unchanging change into birth?

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