AdvaitaVedanta

At inception this visible world was in the form of vasanas, (incipient memory factors). Thereafter, the Great Lord by His power, which was of a non-existent (or merely conceptual order), after the manner of a magician, created all this phenomenal universe. Before creation this world had merely the status of pure samskaras (deep apperceptive masses in consciousness). The sankalpa (willing) mentioned in the previous verse is only an active version of the same vasana. At the time of creation the Lord created all this by his illusory power. This is like the magician, who while remaining all alone is able to make us believe there are multitudes of other things around him. There is in reality nothing apprt from the magician, who is capable of manifesting visible things. Actual entities are not there, but only entities having the status of memory factors are not to be considered real. In the same,way, there is nothing in the universe which is other than the Lord.What is in the Lord is only a certain power of specification or qualification called maya (the principle of false presentiment) having no (real) existence of its own. By the example of the magician, it has thus been shown that the phenomenal world is false.

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