The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

is the cognizer of objects. This is the decision of
Vedanta.
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The Lord (Atman), with His mind turned outward,
imagines in diverse forms various objects either
permanent, such as the earth, or impermanent, such as
lightning, which are already in His mind in the form of
vasanas, or desires. Again, He turns His mind within and
imagines various ideas.
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Those that are cognized internally only as long as the
thought of them lasts and those that are perceived
outside and relate to two points in time, are all mere
objects of the imagination. There is no ground for
differentiating the one from the other.
Those that exist within the mind as subjective ideas
and are known as unmanifested and those that are
perceived to exist outside in a manifested form, both
are mere objects of the imagination. Their difference
lies only in the difference of the organs by means of
which they are perceived.
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First of all is imagined the jiva, the embodied
individual and then are imagined the various entities,
both external such as sounds, forms, etc. and internal
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