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 28
28. Therefore, the mind is not originated, the mind perceivable is not originated either; those who perceive its origination, they verily perceive the foot prints of birds in the sky!
This verse, continuing from the insights of the previous verse declares that the very act of perception is without origination. That that perceives is without origination and the act of perceiving is without origination because perception, Consciousness alone Exists.
The verse finishes asking how can the non-existent come into existence as the non-existent, as footprints of the birds in the sky?