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Vijiianabha;rava
Atmano nirvikarasya leva jiianaQl kva ca va kriya I
Jna.nayatta bahirbhiva atal) siinyam idaQl jagat / / 134
TRANSLATION OF VERSE 133
123
This whole universe is without any essential reality like a
magical spectacle. What is the reality of a magical spectacle ?
If one is fully convinced of the non-essentiality of the universe
in this way, he attains to peace.
TRANSLATION OF VERSE 134
In the unchangeable Self, how can there be knowledge or
activity ? All external objects are dependent on knowledge;
therefore this world is void.
NOTES ON VERSES 133-134
Both the above verses refer to the unreality of the world.
The first one says that the world is like a magic show; therefore,
it has no reality. The second one teaches the unreality of
the world on the basis of non-knowledge and non-activity.
The Self is one mass of consciousness without any division or
differentiation. There can be no change in it. Both knowledge
and activity are a kind of change. Therefore, knowledge
and activity cannot be possible in Self. All external objects of
the world are dependent on knowledge (and activity). As knowledge
and activity are unreal, so the world that is dependent
on these is also unreal, mere void. By contemplating in the above
ways, one acquires peace.
It has to be borne in mind that the knowledge and activity
mentioned in this verse refer to the knowledge and activity of
the limited, empirical individual whose knowledge and activity
are permeated by a sense of difference, and pertain to the world
full of changes.
In the essential Self there is absolutely no change or difference.
Therefore, the knowledge and activity of the empirical individual
belong only to the psycho-physical self, not to the essential
Self. The knowledge and activity ( jiiana and kriya) which are
the characteristics of the essential Self are saktis (jiianaSakli
and kriya-sakli) by which alone there can be any knowledge