--- In [email protected], "Richard J. Williams" <richard@...> wrote: > > > > > > We see people die all the time. The universe > > > does not disappear for those still living... > > > > authfriend: > > Did somebody suggest otherwise? > > > No, the universe would still be not real, yet not > unreal either, after death. It would still be like > a dream. > > We really cannot think of matter as either existing > or not existing. The consciousness cannot truly > create matter - there is no such thing as matter.
MMY called it Mithya in one of his lectures, here's a little on it from a different source: http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/definitions/mithyA.htm > There is only the constructive interference of the > interpenetrating universe. > > As it is written in the Mundaka Upanishad: > > 'By energism of Consciousness Brahman is massed; > from that Matter is born and from Matter Life > and Mind and the worlds.' >
