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 83
83. Is, is not, is and is not, is not is not thus again the untrained one (balisa) does encompass the Bhagavat with notions of him as moving, steady, both moving and steady and free from both.
The seeker for truth, the aspirant, not having memory of the Absolute Self grasps at knowledge and words to form a picture with which to identify this Divine goal. Not knowing which words or directions are true this aspirant carries conflicting information and has no steady description to lead him back home