As long as a person clings to the
belief in causality, the experience of duality will prevail as reality. But
when this attachment to causality wears away, the duality becomes non-existent
as reality.
The three states are created by
false knowledge; therefore nothing in it is eternal. Everything, again, as one
with Ultimate Reality, is unborn; therefore there is no such thing as
destruction.
Birth is ascribed to the
individual; but such birth is not possible from the standpoint of Reality.
Their birth, life and death are part of the illusion. That illusion, again,
does not exist.
The illusory sprout is born of the illusory seed. This
illusory sprout is neither permanent nor destructible. The same applies to the
individual and the world.
The term permanent or impermanent
cannot be applied to the birthless self. What is indescribable in words cannot
be discriminated about as permanent or impermanent.
As in dreams the mind acts through
illusion, presenting the appearance of duality, so also in the waking state the
mind acts through illusion, presenting the appearance of duality. There is no
doubt that the mind, which is in reality non-dual, appears to be dual in
dreams; likewise, there is no doubt that what is non-dual i.e. Consciousness,
appears to be dual in the waking state.
The unreal cannot have another
unreality for its cause, nor can the real have the unreal for its cause. The
real cannot be the cause of the real. And how utterly impossible it is for the
real to be the cause of the unreal!
As a person within the waking
experience through false knowledge appears to handle objects, whose nature is
inscrutable, as if they were real, so also, in dreams, he perceives, through
false knowledge, objects whose existence is possible in the dream alone.
Causality theory is only for
the sake of those who, afraid of non creation, assert the reality of external
objects because they perceive such objects and also because they cling to
various social and religious duties.
Those who, because of their fear
of the truth of absolute non- creation and also because of their perception of
external objects, deny non-creation are not affected by the evil consequent on
the belief in creation. This evil, if there is any, is insignificant.
