TOC Karika 2 Vaitathya Prakarana (from Chinmaya Sandeepany)

Vaitathya Prakarana

Section 2.1: THE UNREALITY OF DREAMS

Verse 2.1: Dreams are an Unreality – Reasons 1 & 2

Verse 2.2: Dreams are an Unreality – Reasons 3 & 4

Verse 2.3: Dreams are an Unreality – Reason “5”

Section 2.2: WAKING & DREAM COMPARED

Verse 2.4: Objects are Perceived in Both States

Verse 2.5: Two Similarities of Waking and Dream States

Verse 2.6: The Unreality of the Waking State

Verse 2.7: Utility is No Proof of Reality

Verse 2.8: Predictability is No Proof of Reality

Verse 2.9: The “Inner & Outer Consciousness” Within Dream

Verse 2.10: The “Inner & Outer Consciousness” Within Waking

Verse 2.11: Who is Their Cognizer and Support?

Section 2.3: THE ROLE OF IMAGINATION

Verse 2.12: The Imaginer – One’s Own Self!

Verse 2.13: How Does Self “Imagine Itself”?

Verse 2.14: “The Time Frames are Different”

Verse 2.15: “The Appearance is Totally Different”

Verse 2.16: The Primary Error – Egocentricity

Verse 2.17: An Analogy for Egocentric Projections

Verse 2.18: Knowledge Removes the Error

Verse 2.19 Ignorance Multiplies the Error

Section 2.4: KNOWLEDGE & BELIEF SYSTEMS

Verse 2.20: Systems 1-4

Verse 2.21: Systems 5-8

Verse 2.22: Systems 9-12

Verse 2.23: Systems 13-16

Verse 2.24: Systems 17-20

Verse 2.25: Systems 21-24

Verse 2.26: Systems 25-28

Verse 2.27: Systems 29-32

Verse 2.28: Systems 33-35

Verse 2.29: How “Belief Systems” take Root

Verse 2.30: Knowledge Unites, Imagination Divides

Verse 2.31: Multiplicity is Unreal

Section 2.5: NON-DUALITY – THE ULTIMATE BELIEF

Verse 2.32: The Benchmark of Non-duality

Verse 2.33: The “Benchmark”of Duality

Verse 2.34: The Non-dual Vision of the World

Verse 2.35: The Realisation of Non-Duality

Verse 2.36: Being Devoted to Non-Duality

Verse 2.37: The Saint & Society

Verse 2.38: The Non-dual Ideal in Practice