Tripura Rahasya - World A Figment Of Imagination

Lord Dattatreya

The Sage's Son continued,

• The cognition 'you' and 'I' is the essence of any kind of creation; such cognition is the manifestation of transcendental consciousness; there cannot be any difference (just as there is no difference in space, bounded by a pot or not bounded by it).
• The diversities in creation are solely due to qualifications limiting the consciousness; these qualifications (e.g., body, limiting of age) are the mental imagery of the creator (consistent with the individual's past merits). When the creative will-force wears away there is dissolution and complete undifferentiation results.
• As for your will power, it is overpowered by the Creator's; when that impediment (Maya's veiling) is surmounted by the methods already mentioned, your will-power will also become effective.
• Time, space, gross creations etc. appear in it according to the imagery of the agent.
• A certain period is only one day according to my calculation, whereas it is twelve thousand years according to Brahma: The space covered by two miles and a half of Brahma is infinite according to me and covers a whole universe. In this way, both are true and untrue at the same time.
• Similarly also, imagine a hill within you, and also time in a subtle sense. Then contemplate a whole creation in them; they will endure as long as your concentration endures - even to eternity for all practical purposes, if your willpower be strong enough. Therefore I say that this world is a mere figment of imagination.