MANDUKYA UPANISHAD with GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA: 42 - Swami Advayananda.

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Monday 30, December 2024, 14:15.
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 4.3:   
Mantras - 14-23 (10 No.) 
Mantram - 4.27: The Idealists – iii) Experiences 
Post-42.

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REALISTS vs. IDEALISTS  
Karika Section 4.4: Mantras - 24-29 (6 No.) 

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Mantram - 4.27: The Idealists – iii) Experiences 

1 

Nimittam na sadaa chittam, = Between mind and objects there is never a contact or

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samsprishati adhvasu trishu; = causal relationship in all the three periods of time.   

3 

animittah viparyaasah, = Delusory experiences without an external cause – 

4 

katham tasya bhavishyati. = how can the mind be subject to such a thing?  

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This Mantram ends the presentation from the side of the Idealists. From the theory we can extrapolate what their view of Experiences is. They regard all experiences as due entirely to the condition or inclination of the mind. It is not the world that brings us experiences, so it makes no difference whether the world is there or not there. It is our mental pre-conditioning that is responsible for our experiences of pain or pleasure.  

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 The independence of mind from the objects is expressed more forcefully here. The vision of the idealists is such that it does not permit and external cause to influence the experiences of the mind. This applies to both ‘real or imaginary objects’, which effectively means ‘whether the world is there or not’. The mind can be said to create its own world. 

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 The full responsibility for perception is taken by the mind, since the objects do not exist as far as this theory goes. There is no question of any false or illusory perception of something which does not exist. If such a perception exists, it is in the mind alone.  The final implication of the Idealists is that there is no such thing as false knowledge at all. The mind alone is responsible for all perceptions. It is the nature of ‘consciousness’ (mind) that things appear as they do in it. 

The Idealists have proven one thing thoroughly – that they cannot rise any further than the mind in their quest for the Reality. As far as the external objects are concerned, their reasoning is identical to that of the Drishti-Srishti Vedantins. That is the only common ground between them. However, in accepting Reality, the Idealists stop at the Mind. 

The Vedantins go further. . . 

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Manram - 4.28: Vedanta’s Response – “Nothing is Born” 

Continued

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