Sage Vasishtha:
Even as when the stem of a banana is peeled, every layer as it is peeled off reveals another similar layer, when this world-appearance is enquired into it is seen as none other than Brahman. This Brahman is referred to positively as the truth, Brahman etc, and since it is beyond description it is also negatively indicated as emptiness and indescribable, etc. Whatever is experienced as real is the reality. Though its particular form is put together by the experience, it is naught but pure consciousness - even as the banana stem is nothing but banana stem and every layer of it is of identical nature.
The self is considered to be of atomic nature because it is extremely subtle and intangible; yet since the self alone is, it is the infinite and it is the very root of the entire existence. It is formless though it appears in all forms.
This world-appearance is but the flesh in which the truth which is pure consciousness is clothed.
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