Aparokṣānubhūti 42–44: The Unreality of Unreality
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2022-03-27

42. “Thus the view that the body is the Ātman has been denounced by the enunciation of the difference between the Ātman and the body. Now is clearly stated the unreality of the difference between the two.”

43. “No division in Consciousness is admissible at any time, as it is always one and the same. Even the individuality of the Jīva must be known as false, like the delusion of a snake in a rope.”

44. “As through the ignorance of the real nature of the rope, the very rope appears in an instant as a snake, so also does pure Consciousness appear in the form of the phenomenal universe without undergoing any change.”