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229. None can demonstrate that the essence of a jar is
something other than the clay (of which it is made). Hence
the jar is merely imagined (as separate) through delusion,
and the component clay alone is the abiding reality in
respect of it.
 
VIVEKACŪDĀMANI
 
सद्ब्रह्मकार्यं सकलं सदेवं
 
10 अस्तीति यो
 
89
 
तन्मात्रमेतन्न ततोऽन्यदस्ति ।
 
यो वक्ति न तस्य मोहोe Lottitutiatod
विनिर्गतो निद्रितवत्प्रजल्पः ॥ २३० ॥ for
 
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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 does is still under delusion-he babbles like!
does is still under delusion
 
one aslcep.
[Like etc. - That is incoherently.]
 
ब्रह्मैवेदं विश्वमित्येव वाणी
श्रौती ब्रूतेऽथर्वनिष्ठा वरिष्ठा ।
तस्मादेतद्ब्रह्ममात्रं हि विश्वं
नाधिष्ठानाद्भिन्नताऽऽरोपितस्य ॥ २३१ ॥
 
231. This universe is verily Brahman-such 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. 11. It is one of the Upanişads
belonging to the Atharva Veda.]