THE Doctrine of Maya - HolyBooks.com

"DEVELOPMENT OF ITS CONCEPTION 93The fourth part, called A Idta-sdnti, i.e.,"Quenching the Fire-brand," is the final pronouncement ofthe illuGaudapada, which is intended to destroysion of the fire-brand." The relation betweencause and effect is examined, and it is shown how itbreaks down while applying to the Atman (iv.n-19). Nothing is produced either of itself or by something else, nor, in fact, isanything produced, whetherit be being, non-being, or both (iv. 22). The various theories held by the Vijnanavadins, the Nihilists,etc., are false (iv. 28). Those who maintain thereality of the world must not forget to realize thatthe world, being without a beginning, cannot, inreason, be shown to have an end. Nothing whichis beginninglessis non-eternal. So also is it impossible to prove the eternity of salvation, realized onlyat the moment of its knowledge, and therefore having a beginning (iv. 30). That which isnaught atthe beginning and at the end, cannot exist in thepresent ; objects are all like ordinary illusions,though regarded as real (iv. 31).Thought all-peace and one, the ever-unborn,immovable and immaterial, appears as admitting ofcreative motion and material existence. Sat isunborn and eternal, still itappears to pass into birth,etc. (iv. 45). Thus neither is the mind produced norare the objects ;those who know this are neverdeluded into a false consciousness (iv. 46). As motionmakes a fire-brand appear straight, crooked, etc., somotion makes thought appear as perceiver, perceived