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 88

88. The dual without the object and without its perception is traditionally known as super practical/ Knowledge, the object of knowledge and particularly the knowable these three are always proclaimed by the enlightened.

Through Discrimination the enlightened are not deluded by the label, or name instead of the object. Referring again to the example of the clay pot, the perception of the enlightened is the perception of knowledge. In this case the clay pot is an object (of knowledge) The (access to) higher knowledge of the enlightened perceiver knows this pot through that higher knowledge, that is, practically, empirically, speaking there is a pot, the full knowledge of what is there "sees" a report in consciousness that "pretends" the existence of earth, clay, manufacture and so forth of this pot that is in reality empty of true existence. This is the same perception in knowledge that sees no higher value in an ounce of gold shaped as a religious artefact than an ounce of gold shaped as a bangle. Further this higher knowledge sees no special value in gold at all.
Put whatever label one likes to any object in creation the truth of that object, the knowledge is that it is empty of true existence.
Ultimately, in the Truth and Reality of The Absolute Self, "I" Alone Exist, therefore knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knowable are all the "One" Knowledge Absolute.

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