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 11

11. For whom indeed that is, who holds that the cause is the effect, for him that is, he would have to admit that the cause is originated; if the cause is being originated, how can it be unborn and how again can that if modified be eternal ?

The one who believes that the cause is also the effect (of the Primal eternal Absolute) will still have to account for that cause, be it with or without the simultaneous effect, being the cause of Eternity. This cannot be is therefore being stated.
The Sequence of cause and effect, the assumption that a cause can dictate an outcome or that there is one thing that is independent of another thing and can independently cause change to the other is the error and delusion of duality. The understanding limited to duality assumes everything has a separate cause. If this was so then the immortal Absolute, the Absolute here said previously to be without origination or cause would have to have been caused, originated, born. If that was so and the Absolute was caused the question is again asked how could the Absolute be immortal? Again the answer has to be that the Primal Absolute Unity is without cause.

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