PHIL 3910 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mandukya Upanishad, Chandogya Upanishad, Upanishads
11 Jan 2017
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Page 75 book 8, chapter 7. The true self is what we see with our eyes either directly, or through a mirror or reflection in water. #4 virocana (one of the devils) he who makes his own self happy . Chapter 9 atman can become blind just as my body can because atman is my body. Don"t believe everything you hear think for yourselves. Virocana accepts that atman is the body, but not indra atman is the body is the lowest metaphor. So, realizes the problem not sufficient that atman is the body or a dream. Chapter 12: recall that the person in the chariot is like atman not controlling anything, just sitting there observing, we would normally say that our bodied existence is higher than our dream existence. The dream is like maya the created world just as the dreamer is a kind of creator. We are to our dreams as mayin is to the world.
