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I06 VIVEKACHUDAMANI

235. Therefore the universe does not -exist apart from the Supreme Self ; and the perception of its separateness is false like the qualities (of blueness etc. in the sky) . Has a superimposed attribute any meaning apart from its substratum ? It is the substratum that appears like that thro dgh delusion .

[ Qualilles of bhieneas etc. — See Sloka 185. // is the substratum &"€ — The rope ai)[)ears as the snake. This idea is made clear iu the next few Slokas. ]

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% 236. Whatever a deluded man perceives through mistake, is Brahman and Brah- man alone: The silver is nothing but the mother-of-pearl. It is Brahman which is always considered as this universe, where- as that which is superimposed on the Brah- man, viz. the universe, is merely a name.

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