The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

necessarily free from birth.
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Subjective knowledge must have an object for its
cause; otherwise variety becomes non-existent.
Further, from the experience of pain, the existence of
external objects, accepted by the dualistic scriptures,
must be admitted.
The dualists, by force of reason, assert that there is a
cause of subjective knowledge. But from the standpoint
of the true nature of things we assert that the so-called
cause is, after all, no cause.
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The mind is not related to external objects or to the
ideas that appear as such objects. This is so because
objects are non- existent and the ideas that appear as
external objects are not distinct from the mind.
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The mind does not enter into the causal relation in any
of the three periods of time. How can it ever be subject
to delusion, when there is no cause for such delusion?
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Therefore neither the mind nor the objects perceived
by the mind are ever born. To see their birth is like
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