Post #343

"Nothing whatsoever is born or dies anywhere at any time. It is Brahman alone appearing illusorily in the form of the world." "O Rama, there is no intellect, no nescience, no mind and no individual soul (jiva). They are all imagined in Brahman." "Rama, there is neither one jiva nor many nor a conglomerate of jiva. Jiva is only a name! What exists is only Brahman. It is full of non-consciousness and(objectless) consciousness, It can only be indicated by negation (not this, not that). He became that which Is beyond description. That state is the Void. Brahman, consciousness, the Purusha of (the Samkhya), Isvara of the yogi. Shiva, time, Atman or self, non-self and the middle etc. of the mystics holding different views." "Even as empty, inert nothingness is known as space, mind is empty of nothingness. All creation here is the effect of that emptiness; and hence the creation is empty, too." "There is an emptiness in the empty. Brahman pervades Brahman, the truth shines in the truth and fullness fills fullness. The wise man, though functioning in this world, does nothing, for he seeks nothing." "If conceptualization (which gives rise to notions of being and non-being) is eliminated, then it is realized that all these jivas (the individual souls), are empty expressions." "This Self can be attained by a hundred ways and means; yet, when It Is attained, nothing has been attained! It is the Supreme Self; yet It Is Nothing." "The Brahman is empty within and empty without." (From the Yoga Vasishtha).