Ulladu-Narpadu Verse 6: the World
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 30/03/2017

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

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"The world which is seen is nothing other than the form of the five sense-knowledges (sight, sound, smell, taste and touch). Those five sense-knowledges are sensations known to the five sense-organs. Since the one mind (or the mind alone) knows the world through the five sense-organs, say, without the mind does the world exist?"

(That is, in the absence of the mind which perceives it, does any such thing as a world exist? Hence the world depends for its seeming existence upon the mind.)

Through the sensory organs lodged in the five koṣas, the senses display before the mind a variety of objects — physical, vital, emotional, mental and intellectual. Apart from the five sense perceptions, there all sorts of other internal senses which also arise from the mind, work through the mind, and are understood by the mind — such as the senses of time, of space, or 'I' and 'mine', and the artistic, ethical, religious and spiritual senses for instance. Since all these senses form the world we known and have one common origin, which is the mind, the world cannot therefore be other than that mind.

In verse 17 of Upadeṣa-Undiyar Śrī Bhagavān reveals that if one vigilantly scrutinizes the form of the mind, it will be found that there is no such thing as mind at all. Since in this verse He reveals that the world does not exist in the absence of the mind, we should understand that when through Self-enquiry the mind is found to be nonexistent, the world will also be found to be nonexistent. Thus the experience which results from Self-enquiry is ajata—the knowledge that the mind and world have never truly come into existence, and that the one unborn and unchanging Self alone truly exists. This experience is the Supreme and Absolute Truth.

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