MANDUKYA UPANISHAD with GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA: 28 - Swami Advayananda.

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Saturday 29, 2024June. 06:25.
MANDUKYA UPANISHAD 
GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA
Agama Prakarana – “The Scriptural Treatise”

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GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA:  PART 4/4:   ALAATA-SHANTI PRAKARANA (100 mantras): Quenching the Firebrand:
The SANKHYANS Refuted:
Karika Section 4.2:   
Mantras 9-13 (5 No.) 
Post-28.

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Mantram - 4.12: Logic Violation 2: Effect Becomes Cause:

1 Kaaranaat yadi ananyatvam, = If you say the effect is not different from the cause, 

2 atah kaaryam ajam yadi; then = the effect must also be birthless.

3 jaayamaanaat hi vai kaaryaat, = Or, if the cause is not different from the ‘born’ effect,

4 kaaranam te katham dhruvam. = then how can the cause be eternal.

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Gaudapadacharyaji does not let this argument go by easily. He takes the same idea 

of the previous verse and looks at it again, not just in amazement but in amusement also at 

the absurdity of it. And Sri Shankaracharyaji adds his slice of humour into it . . .

1-2 Firstly, from the side of the effect: If the effect is not different from the cause, 

then the effect must have the same nature as the cause, i.e. it has to be birthless.

3-4 Secondly, from the side of the cause: If the cause is not different from the effect, 

then the cause must have the same nature as the effect, i.e. it has to be ephemeral, not 

eternal. Thus from both viewpoints, there is a violation of logic.

This latter option draws out the following joke, best described in the words of Pujya 

Gurudev: “Sri Shankaracharyaji brings out the tacit fallacy in this argument with a parallel 

from the work-a-day world. He says that this is as absurd as cutting a hen into two parts –

one for cooking for the lunch and another preserved for laying eggs for the morrow!”

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Mantram - 4.13: Effect Born from the Unborn or Born?

Continued

"Our Politicians sitting as I.N.D.I.A.: ARE FOOLS CUTTING OUR OWN CULTURE, NATION VALUES, AND ABUSE THE PARLIAMENT PROCEEDURES BY CREATING NOISE AND ESTABLISH THEIR POOR CREDIBILITY AS A MP WHO IS ANSWERABLE TO NATION CITIZENS"

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