Vivekachoodaamani

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230. Brahman alone is real and whatever comes out from Brahman is

real. The real cannot produce what is unreal. It is that. There is

nothing except that. He that says there is something separate, his

delusion has not yet vanished. He is as one speaking in his sleep.

 

231. The scripture says this world is Brahman. All is Brahman. There

all this world is nothing but Brahman. What you impute to a thing

(superimpose) is not separate from that to which you impute (the

substratum). The basis of all is Brahman. Therefore what you call the

world is not the world but Brahman.

 

232. If the world is real the scripture becomes worthless, there

remains no basis of truth and the evidence of men of realization who

have realized the atman becomes untrue.

 

234. If the world is real let it be perceived when you are in deep

sleep also. You cannot comprehend anything then. Therefore it is not.

It is like a dream.

 

235. What appears cannot be real. The basis is the real thing and the

appearance is only through ignorance.