UPANISHAD MANDUKYA : Chapter-1. Agama Prakarana ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Sri Gaudapada's glossary begins : Karika Mantram-s 1 to 9. Mantram-6 : Discussion-2.

10/03/2019
Mandukya Upanishad :

Chapter-1. Agama Prakarana ( The Scriptural Treatise )

Sri Gaudapada's glossary begins :

Karika Slokam-s 1 to 9.

Mantram : 6.

"Prabhavah sarva-bhavanam satamiti viniscayah,

sarvam janayati pranas-cetomsun-purushah prthak."

prabhavah = birth (is);

sarva-bhavanam = for all objects;

satam = which are existent;

iti = thus;

viniscayah = is well established;

sarvam = everything;

pranah janayati = unmanifest creates;

cetah-amsun = conscious beings;

purushah = purusha ( The Absolute );

prathak = distinctly.

" It is well established that something can come out as an effect only from a cause that is existent ( not non-existent ). The Prana manifests all insentient things; the Purusha ( The Lord ) creates separately the conscious beings, the egos, in their manifold forms.."

Discussion : 2.

The 'Total Reality' is a potent power consisting of both dynamism and consciousness. The dynamic aspect of Reality, if we may say so, is called the Prana ( the vital air ), and the conscious aspect of Reality is Consciousness. The world that we see today around and about us is constituted of both the inert objects and the sentient beings. When there we two different types of effect, we in our finite experiences, know that there must be two distinctly different causes. No two different effects can come from one and the same cause. Since the sentient and insentient are different and opposite, there must be two distinctly different causes for voth.

Now, here, Goudapada tries to explain what these causes may be. He says that from the dynamic aspect of Reality  ( Pranan -Jivatma ) come the insentient things of the world, while from the Consciousness aspect of Reality ( Purusha - Paramatma ) come the entire world of sentient beings.   

Next Mantram-7.

To be continued ....