The Vedanta Siddhantamuktāvali / with English translation and notes by Arthur Venis.

  • Prakāśānanda, active 16th century
Date:
1898
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Credit: The Vedanta Siddhantamuktāvali / with English translation and notes by Arthur Venis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fagi ■^3 ^e|W5igng ?fa fWrin I I I f^fB- gur^qsTii^nrai st^^isf^ • ^ ^grai^iw- f^cu ^ss2ii f’§'i- ! sRTiD?^*» ^gi ^g tig ^RT^Iq; oBisiq^gsg; ^§i ^i^au: 5515:^5151: 5^4115555^115: I ^qmui^n: 5r3if5- nmi: f!§5]in5i 5I gmra^ g^: iininfm^: ^5ii vim g3ii5J5555i5if55T53gm saginii^^i'a^ 5«ira 5T5aRll3ITOt5H15351I5, 55 Wl^^T «5f?l 51155 I have proved that the common view of a plurality of jivas is due simply to the error of confounding the body with the Self. Nevertheless it nfiay be asked, how in the waking state is this consciousness of a plurality of jivas to be explained (if jiva is really a unity ? Listen attentively. There is really but one Self, in its own nature eternal, absolute, intelligent, free, made known in the Upanisbads only. This Self, associating itself with b'les- cience becomes jiva and falsely surmises the bodies of gods, men &c., for whose enjoyment it creates, as means, the ‘ egg of Brahma and the fourteen worlds. Of these bodies one is a god, another is a man. There is Hiranyagarbha the creator of all things, Vishnu the preserver, and Rudra who destroys the world at a pralaya or final resolution. These three have the rajas, sattva and tamas qualities respectively as their limiting conditions, to which all tlieir powers are due. Then again there is the individual man vho thinks within himself ‘I am the son of a Brahman ; halving served the Gods in puja &c. and acquired ‘ hearing ’ and the other prescribed means I shall gain emancipation. In all these formg ' the Self, though really T^vara (Brahman) is deceived in the waking state. Again, the Self having put an end to the world of waking consciousness as described above, and aided by the defects of sleep, surmises in dreams a world precisely similar to that of
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