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> The main object or central teaching of systems like the Vedas is that

> Brahman is real and that the world and all other things are unreal. But

> all sorts of aspirants have to be appealed to, the dull and the sharp

> alike. To enable the dull to follow the central teaching, a graded

> cosmogony is given: Brahman begetting prakriti, (nature) followed by

> mahat-tattvam (the projected light of the Absolute Consciousness

> manifesting as ego) and then the tanmatras, the elements, the world and the

> body in succession. To the sharp intelligence of other aspirants the Vedas

> say that it is by the clouding of the Self by avarana, or a covering of

> ignorance, that this dream-like illusory or phenomenal world appears. In

> reality the Self is not covered. It only appears to be covered to the eye

> of those who believe that they arc the bodyThe main object or central

> teaching of systems like the Vedas is that Brahman is real and that the

> world and all other things are unreal. But all sorts of aspirants have to

> be appealed to the dull and the sharp alike. To enable the dull to follow

> the central teaching, a graded cosmogony is given: Brahman begetting

> prakriti, (nature) followed by mahat-tattvam (the projected light of the

> Absolute Consciousness manifesting as ego) and then the tanmatras, the

> elements, the world and the body in succession. To the sharp intelligence

> of other aspirants the Vedas say that it is by the clouding of the Self by

> avarana, or a covering of ignorance, that this dream-like illusory or

> phenomenal world appears. In reality the Self is not covered. It only

> appears to be covered to the eye of those who believe that they are the

> body.

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> From the book, "Conscious Immortality" by Paul Brunton and Munagala

> Venkataramiah