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 57
57. Everything is originated on account of empirical experience, therefore indeed what is so originated is not eternal or, permanent. Everything characterised by the nature of existent is unoriginated, and therefore there is no annihilation.
It is the unquestioning acceptance of sense experience that keeps the material world a reality. These same sense experiences will report birth and death, transience and decay. From such an existence there can be no transcendence.