Tripura Rahasya

Lord Dattatreya said,

• Objects in the world can be handled and put to use, while mental creations (e.g., dreams) present the same phenomenon.
• A magician's creations are only transitory; a yogi's creations may be permanent; both are external to the creator, whereas the divine creation cannot be apart from the omnipresent Lord.
• Because the Lord of consciousness is infinite, the creation can remain only within Him and the contrary is pure fancy.
• Since the universe is only a projection from and in the mirror of consciousness, its unreal nature can become clear only on investigation, and not otherwise.
• Truth can never change its nature, whereas untruth is always changing. See how changeful the nature of the world is!
• Distinguish between the changeless truth and the changeful untruth and scrutinize the world comprised of these two factors, changeful phenomena and changeless subjective consciousness, like the unchanging light of the mirror and the changing images in it.
• The world cannot stand investigation because of its changing unreal nature. Just as the owl is dazzled and blinded by bright sunlight, so the world parades in glory before ignorance and disappears before right analysis.