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 53
53. Substance may be the cause of substance; and a category other than substance of a category other than substance assuredly. The nature of a substance or the nature of some other category is not reasonable in the case of entities.
Only something of substance can be the cause of another substance it is being said. This seems to mean that for example the firebrand patterns, lacking substance could not logically be the cause of anything having substance. One may theorise and invent some other substance that might for example cause another theoretical substance, this could be so.
But in this reality with the appearance of entities which appear to have substance, it is only logical to admit that such entities are not caused by consciousness or mind.