the Supreme Self is presented as I

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ADVAITA BODHA DEEPIKA[LAMP OF NON-DUAL KNOWLEDGE][Originally

Sri Shankaracharya and other great Sages hadwritten several works like the commentary on the Vedanta Sutrasand thus furnished the methods for those engaged in Self enquiryto accomplish their purpose.From those, Sri Karapatra Swami later condensed thesalient

points

into

Sanskrit

verse

in

a

work

of

twelve

chapters,called Sri Advaita

Bodha Deepika.Still later, some great man seems to have translated thisinto Tamil prose. For some unknown reasons only some eightchapters

of

the

same

are

found

published.]ON SUPERIMPOSITION84-85. Master: Just as the Supreme Self is presented as "I" by theI-mode of Maya, so also It is presented by the `this' mode as thisuniverse with all its contents.Disciple: How?M.: The power of multiplicity is the `this' mode whosenature is to be imagining `this' and `that'. In the Ether ofConsciousness it recollects the millions of latencies, as `this' and`that'. Being stirred up by these latencies, the jiva though itselfthe Ether of consciousness, now manifests as the individual bodyetc., the external worlds and the diversities.D.: How?86-89. M.: First, mind appears in the impartite Ether ofConsciousness. Its movements form the aforesaid latencies whichshow forth in various illusory forms, such as "here is the bodywith organs and limbs" — "I am this body" — "here is myfather" — "I am his son" — "my age is such and such" —"these are our relatives and friends" — "this is our house" — "Iand you" — "this and that" — "good and bad" — "pleasureand pain" — "bondage and release" — "castes, creeds andduties" — "Gods, men and other creatures" — "high, low andmiddling" — "enjoyer and enjoyments" — "many millions ofspheres" — and so on.D.: How can the latencies themselves appear as this vastuniverse?90. M.: A man remaining unmoving and happy in deepsleep, when stirred up by the rising latencies, sees illusory dreamvisions of creatures and worlds; they are nothing but the latenciesin him. So in the waking state also he is deluded by the latenciesmanifesting as these creatures and worlds.