PARABRAHMA SUTRAS (201-202)

201. Jadashaktinaadimandalanayanenaiva neyaa chit.

Translation: The awareness can be transferred from one place to the other along with the inert energy and the nervous system only.

Explanation: Awareness is not even an independent item like inert energy or the nervous system. The current can be transferred from one machine to another machine. The grinding machine can also be transferred from one place to another place. But the grinding work separated from the current (inert energy) and the grinding machine cannot be transferred from one place to the other place. If the grinding work is to be transferred from one place to the other place, you have to transfer the grinding machine which is in working condition due to the current working in the machine. Hence, the awareness can be transferred from one place to another place along with the working nervous system (the person possessing the nervous system) along with the working inert energy in it. This makes it clear that the awareness has no status of even an independent item like inert energy and the nervous system. In such a case, what is the use of creating a great field of philosophy around it?

202. Chit mithyaa vyavahaarepi jadashaktistu paramaarthe.

Translation: The awareness is relatively true even in the present relative plane of the existence of the world. The inert energy becomes relatively true only in the absolute plane, when the entire world is dissolved into inert energy called as primordial energy.

Explanation: Of course, if you analyze the inert energy, it is also a work in the absolute plane. The nervous system being matter is also a form of inert energy and thus it is also inert energy. When the entire creation is converted into inert energy in the final dissolution, such final state of inert energy in the absence of any modification of it is called as primordial energy. This primordial energy is also work only and the working element or worker of this primordial energy in the absolute plane is God. But we are discussing the awareness in the present existing stage of creation i.e., the relative plane. The awareness is realized as work even in the present relative plane. In the present relative plane, the primordial energy maintains its status as an entity or an absolute item. You should not bring the concept of the absolute plane to the present relative plane and conclude that since inert energy is also a relative item in the absolute plane, it is equal to the awareness, which is a relative item in the present relative plane. The difference between the inert energy and awareness is that the former is relative in the absolute plane and the awareness is relative even in the present relative plane. This is the basic confusion of Advaitins, who say that the entire creation including primordial energy, is relative (mithya) in the present relative plane itself.