shivsomashekhar
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Excerpts from the Utpatti Prakarana -
All of this (creation, existence) is mere imagination or thought. Nothing has been created. Consciousness (Prajna) alone exists now and ever; in it are no worlds, no created beings.
Rama: Is there only one Jiva or many Jivas or one huge conglomerate of Jivas?
Vasistha: Rama, there is neither one Jiva or many or a conglomerate.
Gaudapada in his Mandukya Karika -
Even in the waking state what is imagined by the mind within is unreal, while what is
grasped by the mind outside is real. It is reasonable to hold both these to be unreal - 2.10
There is no dissolution, no origination, none in bondage, none possessed of the means
of liberation, none desirous of liberation, and none liberated. This is the ultimate truth - 2.32
Putting them together -
1. Everything is imagined. The body, the soul, other people, the past, present and future are all thoughts. The idea of thought itself is a thought.
2. Consciousness powers these thoughts, but it can only be inferred by thought.
3. Bondage, liberation, Veda are all thoughts too. This is Gaudapada's Paramartha.
People interested in Advaita see Space and its objects as Maya, but they miss the fundamental truth that Time is Maya too. That is, the past, present and future are Maya. The Advaitic moksha is an event in time and is therefore within Maya. A post-moksha state then, is also within Maya, which makes it a paradox. Without internalizing the nature of Time (as Maya), any conception of Advaita will be false.
There is no magic, no transformation of anything. "Jnana (Knowledge/wisdom) alone liberates". Liberation is an intellectual rationalization of the above. That is, seeing for oneself that time is Maya, there is no non-existence and consequently, no birth and no death.
No one is born - Karika 3.48
All of this (creation, existence) is mere imagination or thought. Nothing has been created. Consciousness (Prajna) alone exists now and ever; in it are no worlds, no created beings.
Rama: Is there only one Jiva or many Jivas or one huge conglomerate of Jivas?
Vasistha: Rama, there is neither one Jiva or many or a conglomerate.
Gaudapada in his Mandukya Karika -
Even in the waking state what is imagined by the mind within is unreal, while what is
grasped by the mind outside is real. It is reasonable to hold both these to be unreal - 2.10
There is no dissolution, no origination, none in bondage, none possessed of the means
of liberation, none desirous of liberation, and none liberated. This is the ultimate truth - 2.32
Putting them together -
1. Everything is imagined. The body, the soul, other people, the past, present and future are all thoughts. The idea of thought itself is a thought.
2. Consciousness powers these thoughts, but it can only be inferred by thought.
3. Bondage, liberation, Veda are all thoughts too. This is Gaudapada's Paramartha.
People interested in Advaita see Space and its objects as Maya, but they miss the fundamental truth that Time is Maya too. That is, the past, present and future are Maya. The Advaitic moksha is an event in time and is therefore within Maya. A post-moksha state then, is also within Maya, which makes it a paradox. Without internalizing the nature of Time (as Maya), any conception of Advaita will be false.
There is no magic, no transformation of anything. "Jnana (Knowledge/wisdom) alone liberates". Liberation is an intellectual rationalization of the above. That is, seeing for oneself that time is Maya, there is no non-existence and consequently, no birth and no death.
No one is born - Karika 3.48
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