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 74

74. What is even unoriginated on account of the imagined phenomenal experience is not unoriginated in reality. But that same is held to be originated by the phenomenal experience established in other schools of philosophy!

"What is ... unoriginated on account of the imagined phenomenal experience" This refers to the delusional experience that a soul is born so therefore it can be mortal which means it is without true existence (unoriginated). But this verse point out that even this thinking ( in terms of the soul being unoriginated due to perceived birth) is wrong because the term unoriginated or any sort of reference to a state for the eternal or immortal is in error.
The same error applies to the seeing of the soul as birthless. In Reality The Primal Eternal Singularity bears no reference in terms of words or duality or non-duality. The Self "IS" (devoid of attributes) .

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