A compendium of the Raja Yoga philosophy / comprising the principle treatises of Shrimat Sankaracharya and other renowned authors.

  • Śaṅkarācārya
Date:
1888
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Credit: A compendium of the Raja Yoga philosophy / comprising the principle treatises of Shrimat Sankaracharya and other renowned authors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    R^TTRff I ^Rf IRR# 5^*R II ^ II 42. The object however of this enunciation of the vital fundamental difference between the two bodies and the Atman is (not to establish the reality of the material universe but) to dissipate the ignorance of confounding or identifying the Atman with the dehas. It yet remains, however, to clearly demonstrate the unreality of the difference between the two. i. e. it remains clearly to establish that the dehas have no / existence independent of, and without the Atman. ^ *PTT H II II 43. As Cliaitanya or absolute consciousness is but uniform and unique, it cannot admit of a second, it cannot admit of a division. Even the individual soul must then be accepted to be futile, like the delusion of snake in a rope. Him n r< n 44. As through ignorance the rope, appears for the time> to be a snake, so does the unconditioned consciousness—chit—, (Brahma)—appear in the form of this so-called material universe. ^ %rH3L M^'M 45. The material cause of this transitional universe can be nothing else than Brahma ; it follows therefore that the whole universe is Brahma itself and nothing else. O