Shakti and Shakta: Essays and Addresses on the Shakta Tantrashastra c19.10

c19.10

But empirically he must and does admit the world or Mâyâ, which in its seed is the cosmic Sañskâra, which is the cause of all these notions which from the highest state are rejected. But is it real or unreal? Sañkara says it is neither. It cannot be real, for then there would be two Reals. It is not unreal, for the world is an empirical fact—an experience of its kind, and it proceeds from the Power of Îshvara. In truth, it is unexplainable, and as Sâyana says, more wonderful than Chit itself.