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VIVEKACHUDAMANI
103 230. Similarly, the whole universe being the effect of the real Brahman is in reality nothing but Brahman. Its essence is That, and it does not exist apart from It. He who says 'it is', is still under delusion,—he babbles like' one asleep.
[ 'Like &c.—i.e. incoherently. ]
ब्रह्मवेदं विश्वमित्येव वाणी
श्रौती ब्रूतेऽथर्वनिष्ठा परिष्ठा। तस्मादेतद्ब्रह्ममात्रं हि विश्वं
नाधिष्ठानाद्भिन्नताऽरोपितस्य ॥ २३१॥ 231. This universe is verily Brahmansuch is the august pronouncement of the Atharva Veda. Therefore this universe is nothing but Brahman,-for that which is superimposed (on something) has no separate existence from its substratum.
[ The reference is to Mundaka (II. ii. II), which is one of the Upanishads belonging to the Atharva Veda. ] सत्यं यदि स्याजगदेतदात्मना
न तत्त्वहानिनिंगमाप्रमाणता। असत्यवादित्वमपीशितुः स्या
नेतत्वयं साधु हितं महात्मनाम् ॥ २३२॥ 232. If the universe, as it is, be real, there will be no cessation of the dualistic element, the
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