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VIVEKACŪĻĀMANI
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The Brahman is
world the origination etc., of ākāśa is not seen. compared to ākāśa and is said to be unchanging like it because its origin cannot be seen.
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aqncu fany fauǹsa agan aga cita: zad ब्रह्मैतज्जगदापराणु सकलं ब्रह्माद्वितीयं श्रुतेः । ब्रह्मवाहमिति प्रबुद्धमतयः संत्यक्तबाह्याः स्फुटं
ब्रह्मभूय वसन्ति सन्ततचिदानन्दात्मनैव ध्रुवम् ।। ३९५ ।। vaktavyam kimu vidyate'tra bahudhā brahmaiva jīvassvayam brahmaitajjagadāparāņu sakalam brahmadvitīyam śruteḥ brahmaivāhamiti prabuddhamatayaḥ saṁtyaktabāhyaḥ sphuṭam brahmibhūya vasanti santatacidānandātmanaiva dhruvam|| What is there to expatiate on this? The jīva is itself Brahman only. This entire world upto the minutest atom is Brahman. The śruti declares Brahman to be without a second. Most clearly, those who have awakened to the consciousness: 'I am Brahman', giving up all external attachments, surely live always in unitary experience of Brahman realising themselves as sat, cit and ānanda.
Is there anything to be said in diverse ways on the subject of the unitary nature of Brahman? For proper and full comprehension, the meaning of the Vedanta has been conveyed with various illustrations. That is here given in brief. A meaning conveyed at length and in brief is well-comprehended. Vide: slokärdhena pravakṣyāmi yaduktam granthakoṭibhiḥ brahma satyam jaganmithya jivo brahmaiva naparaḥ 11 "I shall tell you in half a sloka what has been taught through crores of books: Brahman is real; the world is mithyā; the jiva is Brahman only, not any other."
brahmaiva jivassvayam: jīvatā, being jīva, is due to association of Brahman with the upadhis. Brahmatva, being Brahman, is the real nature of what is understood as jiva, as the rope is the real nature of the snake. Hence the jīva is itself Brahman, not different from it.
āparāņu: until the minutest atom, all this world from ākāśa onward is Brahman only.
tajjatvāt, tallatvāt, tadanatvāt: as it (the world) is originated by it (i.e., Brahman), as it lapses into it, and as it breathes (is sustained) by it; vide the śruti: sarvam khalvidam brahma, tajjalāniti śānta upasita (Chand.).
