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Updated: May 22, 2025
The material world is related to Brahman as the coils to the snake, 'on account of twofold designation. For some texts declare the identity of the two: 'Brahman only is all this'; 'The Self only is all this. Other texts again refer to the difference of the two: 'Having entered into these three deities with this jiva-self, let me differentiate names and forms. We therefore consider all non-sentient things to be special forms or arrangements of Brahman, as the coils are of a coiled-up snake or a coiled-up rope.
This true nature of the Self, free from all avidya, which the text begins by presenting as an object to be attained, is thereupon declared to be the Self consisting of bliss. We hence conclude that the Self consisting of bliss is that same jiva-self which was at the outset pointed out as the Brahman to be attained.
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