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VICHAR MALA.
Like mirage water-irrigating the sky, And spreading its fragrance of flowers ; Do consider the world so,
And know it.
Just as the moving clouds assume the form of human figures in the sky who are seen to fight and quarrel, or their imaginary resemblance with other substances, so in Brahma, this vast material expanse from ether downwards, is extremely unreal.
Says the pupil:
This world speaks to all the world, Moreover it is tangible, how then
Is it upreal ? Say worshipful sire! Worshipful Guru, creating a desire of release in all and helping them to experience felicity, everywhere in Sruti, Smriti the existence of phenomena is mentioned.
It is likewise an object of visible perception, how then do you speak of its extreme unreality? If it were so, the texts explanatory of origin would be perfectly useless :-“From which these elements have derived their origin," and "from Self has sprung up ether" (while treating on sacred formulae, for recanting during prayer). In this manner, from the unreality to phenomena, reality of noumena is also done away with, and from an absence of product there will be no necessity for declaring Iswar as a cause--all this would indeed be absurd. These are some of the doubts which have taken possession of me. Do remove them.
They are now being removed by maintaining the extreme upreality of phenomena, and its indescribable nature. Guru.
Sight of a rope leads to several illusions. Some say it is the root of a tree, another a snake; Sight of nacre creates difference many, Some say it talc, another silycr.
