Ulladu-Narpadu Verse 7: the Whole
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 01/04/2017

This series is classified Ajata-vāda | Jñāna-yoga | Turīya | Sahasrāra-cakra

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7. "Although the world, which is seen before us, and the mind which sees it arise and disappear simultaneously, the world exists and shines only because of the mind. That which is the Whole (pūrṇa) and which shines without appearing and disappearing is the base for the appearance and disappearance of the world and mind. That Self alone is the Reality." 

The world and mind are unreal because they appear at one time and disappear at another time, and because they are divided as separate entities. Only that which shines eternally without appearing and disappearing, and which is a single undivided Whole, is the Reality. Just as the rope is the base on which the unreal snake appears and disappears, so the eternal and undivided Reality is the base on which the unreal world and mind appear and disappear.

This verse is reminiscent of the Invocation and confirms the previous verse, which make awareness the criterion of existence as well as the source of the world. Awareness “always shines” as the “limitless Eye” mentioned in verse four, the eternal Knower. It goes without saying that the appearance of the world is simultaneous with the awareness of it, and disappearance of the world simultaneous with the withdrawal of that awareness. For the fact of the awareness of the world is the fact of its existence. We cannot affirm the existence of an object without first affirming awareness of it. Therefore awareness is the only Reality there is.

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