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Podcast: Śivadyuti (शिवद्युति)
Episode: Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad Kārikā—The Creation and Consciousness
Description: “From such Scriptural passages as, ‘There is no multiplicity in Ātman’, ‘Indra through Māyā’ etc., we know that the Ātman, though ever unborn, verily appears to have become many {only) through Māyā.” —Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad Kārikā, 3.24
Śaṅkarācārya’s Commentary:
It may be asked how the changelessness (Ajati) of Atman is the final conclusion of the Sruti. In reply it is said that if creation were real, then the existence of the variety of objects would be absolutely real. Consequently there ought not to be Scriptural texts implying their unreality. But there are such Scriptural texts as, “In this {Atman...