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Podcast: Śivadyuti (शिवद्युति)
Episode: Māṇḍūkya Upaṇiṣad Kārikā 3.48—The Unborn Self
Description: “No jīva is ever born. There does not exist any cause that can produce it. This is the highest Truth, that nothing is ever born.” —Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad Kārikā 3.48
“All these ideas regarding the discipline of the mind, evolution resembling the creation of forms from iron and clay, as well as ideas regarding devotional practices, are given as means to realization of the nature of Ultimate Reality. They have, in themselves, no meaning whatsoever. The Truth regarding Ultimate Reality is that no jīva is ever born. The individual jīva, whom one knows empirically as the agen...