MANDUKYA UPANISHAD with GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA: 29 - Swami Advayananda.

Chinmaya Mission Mumbai:

Hari om. We celebrated the 8th Anniversary of Chinmaya Pradeep in Sandeepany Sadhanalaya today with a paduka pooja and an online satsang. 

We thank everyone involved in the functioning of Chinmaya Pradeep and encourage more and more people to visit, learn, share about about Poojya Gurudev’s life, vision and work. 

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Recordings are enclosed below. 

Highlights of 7th Year of Chinmaya Pradeep programmes from June 2023-May 2024

https://youtu.be/1590MywZguI

Online satsang by Swami Swatmananda on the 8th Anniversary - 12th June 2024

https://youtu.be/dO0NRQHJafk

Paduka Pooja by Shri Mukul Patel and Smt. Meghana Patel on this occasion 

https://youtu.be/2wISlOJ4t-4

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Saturday 13, Jul 2024, 07:00.
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-29.

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

1 

Ajaat vai jaayate yasya, =  If you say the effect is born from the ‘Unborn’ cause, 

2 

drishtaantah tasya naasti vai; =  this certainly has no supporting illustration ! 

3  

jaataat cha jaayamaanasya, =  And if the effect is born from the ‘Born’ cause, 

4

na vyavasthaa prasajyate. =  then there is the case of an infinite regress! 

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The same argument is now looked at from a third angle:  It seems the disputants 

want to stick to their stand vehemently. In that case, they have the following two options. 

Does the world come from an ‘Unborn’ cause, or does it come from a ‘Born’ cause? 

1-2

 Unborn Cause: If the former case is taken, then there is no illustration for such a 

case. For, an ‘Unborn’ cause cannot give birth to anything – it will need to have parts to do 

that, and we have seen in 3-4

 of the previous verse that this is not logical. 

Pujya Gurudev creates an example of his own: “My unborn son’s daughter cannot 

suffer from even a toothache! Nor can my daughter suffer from any disease when I am an 8

year old boy!” 

3-4

 Born Cause: The second option is that the cause has to be ‘Born’. This case leads 

one into an endless regression. “Just as I am born from my father, my father was born from

his father, and so on backwards to infinity.” It can go on like that for ever. This is not a 

solution at all – there is no Reality in such a case! 

The only true solution, therefore, is that we must accept that: 

Reality is absolute and eternal, that it is the Uncaused Cause. 

Based on this only possibility of Reality, we have to also accept the following about the world that we see before our eyes: 

Creation can only be an Unreality that is superimposed (as opposed to ‘born’) upon the Reality. 

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Next

The MEEMAMSAKAS Refuted 

Karika Section 4.3:   Mantras - 14-23 (10 No.) 

Continued

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