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Sarvadarshanasangraha 13.86

Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha 13.86

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Sanskrit

13.86

tattadupādhiparikalpitabhedabahulatayā vyavahārasyāvidyāmātrakalpitatvena pratiniyatākāropadhīyamānarūpabhedaṃ brahmatattvaṃ sarvaśabdaviṣayaḥ/ abhede ca pāramārthike saṃvṛtivaśād vyavahāradaśāyāṃ svapnāvasthāvad uccāvacaḥ prapañco vivartata iti kārikārthaḥ/ tad āhur vedāntavādanipuṇāḥ:

The meaning of this Kārikā is that Brahman is the one object denoted by all words; and this one object has various differences imposed upon it according to each particular form; but the conventional variety of the differences produced by these illusory conditions is only the result of ignorance. Non-duality is the true state; but through the power of "concealment"[39] [exercised by illusion] at the time of the conventional use of words a manifold expansion takes place, just as is the case during sleep. Thus those skilled in Vedānta lore tell us—

Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy

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