CHAPTER THREE

Asatya Darsanam—Vision of Non-Truth

Verse - 7


आत्मा न क्षीरवद्याति रूपान्तरमतोऽखिलम् ।

विवर्तमिन्द्रजालेन विद्यते निर्मितं यथा ॥ ७ ॥


Now the Self is complete, not going to another form like milk (turning to curd),

Just as the magic net of Indra turns round existing as a structure.


Sree Narayana Guru

Commentary


The Self is the Absolute, complete in itself, not subject to change and impossible to fabricate or enclose in a structure. The Tripura Upanishad says the Self-Absolute is "without cause or comparison," and the Vishnu Bhagavata Purana declares, "That (Absolute) is not a God, not a Demon, not human, not non-human, not animal, not woman, not eunuch, not man, not insect, not quality, not action, not existence, not non-existence." The Bhagavad Gita (XIII. 12) says the same: "the beginningless Supreme Absolute is said to be neither existence nor non-existence." The Absolute is not coloured by name and form, causality and non-causality.

The magic net of Indra turns round like an ever revolving wheel and is structured. When it finally dawns on the individual seeker that the structured magic of the world looming forth as conceptual name and perceptual form is an unreal limitation and not the Self-Absolute, then in a flash enlightenment comes.

Sree Narayana Guru