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MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA<br />
M.M.NINAN<br />
From himself he also drew forth the mind,<br />
which is both real and unreal,<br />
likewise from the mind ego,<br />
which possesses the function of self-consciousness and is lordly.<br />
Moreover, the great one, the soul,<br />
and all products affected by the three qualities,<br />
and, in their order, the five organs which perceive the objects of sensation.<br />
But, joining minute particles even of those six,<br />
which possess measureless power,<br />
with particles of himself, he created all beings.<br />
Laws of Manu 1.5-16<br />
This is a total inhomogenity within the Brahman. Thus the whole cosmos is nothing but<br />
Brahman with all his inhomogenity. Here again we can have two possibilities.<br />
1. Brahman or our Universe is a hologram. As such every point within the hologram<br />
is again a hologram a copy of Brahman nevertheless weak in intensity or<br />
amplitude. This situation is not really a possibility since universe is not<br />
homogeneous as we all know. Yet advaita holds this concept that the variation<br />
showing inhomogenity is simply because of ignorance. A stone is a stone and<br />
not a man because it is ignorant of its reality as Brahman. Imagine a Brahman<br />
who does not remember and is ignorant. In the ultimate sense that is the<br />
assumption of Advaita. In the extreme mentalist approach, the stone is simply<br />
the mental construct of the beholder within the unspecified sense perception to<br />
which there may be no external reality<br />
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