There is no dissolution, no birth, none in bondage, none aspiring for wisdom, no seeker of liberation and none liberated. This is the absolute truth.

–Gaudapada

Only pure being is.

Non-being is not. To say that “non-being is not” is to say that non-being is non-existent.

Nothing–that is, not a thing–ever came into being. Not a thing ever could come into being.

For non-being, clearly, cannot become.

Nor can being, itself, ever become. Time being non-existent, being can only be itself, eternally.

What does any of this mean?

It means that the world never came into being. There never was such “an event” or such a “series of events” or any “simultaneous appearances” known as creation or manifestation or whatever. It means that there’s no such thing as space, or time, or causality, or movement.

It means that neither the body nor the mind nor the ego ever came into being.

It means that there has never, actually, been any suffering or any sufferer, let alone any spiritual path, any ignorance, or any liberation. There has, indeed, never been anything but being.

“This [i.e., ajata: no creation],” Gaudapada declares, “is the absolute truth.” In fact, the absolute truth cannot be expressed.