MANDUKYA UPANISHAD with GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA: 15 - Swami Advayananda ji.

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Friday, 05 Jan 2024. 07:04.

MANDUKYA UPANISHAD 

with Part 1/4 of GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA

Agama Prakarana – “The Scriptural Treatise”

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PART 1: Agama Prakarana (Mantras-29.)

THE SYLLABLES OF “OM”

Upanishad Section 3: 

Mantras - 8-12

Mantram - 12: ‘Amaatra’ – The Fourth Letter: TURIYA

Post-15.

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Mantram - 12: ‘Amaatra’ – The Fourth Letter: TURIYA

Its Representation:

1a amaatra chaturthah; =  The “partless” Om is the Fourth Quarter;

1b avyavahaaryah; =  It is beyond all conventional dealings;

1c prapancha upashamah; =  It is the limit of the negation of the phenomenal world;

Its Similarities:

2a shivah;  =  It is all-Auspiciousness, all-Blissful;

2b advaitah;  =  It is the One without a second; the Non-Dual Reality;

2c evam omkaarah aatmaa eva;;  =  This Om is verily the same as the Atman or Self within;

Its Results:

3 samvishati aatmanaa aatmaanam;  =  The Self realises itself through the Self; 

4 yah evam veda.  =  he who knows thus, (gets the above result).

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The line-by-line meanings are as given above, and tie up with the Bhashyam.

1a 

The silence of the Turiya Quarter is not separate from the other three Quarters, 

but underlies them also. Beneath the sound of A, U and M, there is the underlying silence 

which supports them. Note that this silence is not just that which we notice between Om’s, 

but also that which we do not so easily notice during the sound of the other three syllables.

In other words, Turiya, the Fourth Quarter actually runs through the first three Quarters. It 

is the basis and foundation of the three states.

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CONCLUSION

The Bhashya’s Concluding Comments

The Bhashya makes the following closing remarks on the final Upanishadic Mantram:

A/ 

The knower of Brahman, who has realized the highest Truth, has entered into the 

Self by burning away the 3rd state of latency (dormant Vasanas are all burnt). Henceforth, he 

is not born again, as there are no Karmas to cause a further birth.

B/ 

In Turiya, there are no latent Samskaras to cause another entry into Samsara. 

When once a snake has been recognized to be falsely superimposed on the rope, it is never 

again seen as a snake to the enlightened person.

C/ 

To those who have not become knowers of Brahman, due to average or not fully 

purified intellects, who nevertheless still tread the path of renunciation and virtue, and are 

performing the Upasanas on Om, there need be no anxiety in their case. By continuing their 

Sadhana, they will in due course come to the realisation of Brahman.

Here ends the Mandukya Upanishad.

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Next

GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA

PART 4/4: ALAATA-SHANTI PRAKARANA (100 Mantras)

Quenching the Firebrand

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INTRODUCTION TO ALAATA-SHANTI PRAKARANA

To be continued

ANS - A. UPANISHADS.

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