this world of the waking state, nonetheless illusory

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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 SUPERIMPOSITION91. Disciple: Now, master, the dream is but the reproduction ofmental impressions formed in the waking state and lyingdormant before. They reproduce past experiences. Thereforedream-visions are rightly said to be only mental creations.Should the same be true of the waking world, this must be thereproduction of some past impressions. What are thoseimpressions which give rise to these waking experiences?92. Master: Just as the experiences of the waking state give riseto the dream world, so also the experiences of past lives give riseto this world of the waking state, nonetheless illusory.D.: If the present experience is the result of the precedingone, what gave rise to its preceding one?M.: That was from its preceding one and so on.D.: This can extend back to the time of creation. Indissolution all these impressions must have been resolved. Whatwas left there to start the new creation?M.: Just as your impressions gathered one day lie dormantin deep sleep and become manifest the following day, so alsothe impressions of the preceding cycle (kalpa) reappear in thesucceeding one. Thus these impressions of Maya have nobeginning, but appear over and over again.