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""""""""""56 THE DOCTRINE OF MAYA(Trans.)It isto be perceived by the mind alone,there is here no multiplicity whatever ;who sees here as it were manypasses from death to death.That multiplicity, the characteristic of the universe, is false is the high-sounding note here, andit is still further emphasized by saying that he whosees as it were a plurality actually existing is neversaved, but isover and over subject to the pangs ofbirth and death in this samsdra.\ The conceptionof Maya exhibits itself in such passages clearly,and yet many do not see it. Here also attentionmay specially be drawn to the word iva as itwere which implies that the multiplicity isonly an appearance, an as it were."Truly speaking, this as it were should be supplied in almostall passages where the Upanisads speak oftheother." It would be quite in keeping with thespirit of true idealism.This exactlyis the highest (and the truest) standpoint of the Upanisads. When they deny in suchclear and distinct terms the existence of themany," it means that they refuse to concede anyreality to the world from that standpoint, the ideaof the world being meaningless without all thisndnd (multiplicity). Abstract the many and youbring the world to a zero-point, nothing remainsbehind ;all vanishes.All the words which we use in our every-day