MANDUKYA UPANISHAD with GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA: 44 - Swami Advayananda.

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Friday 17, January 2025, 09:00.
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 4.3:   
Mantras - 14-23 (10 No.) 
Mantram - 4.29: Birthlessness – Essential Nature of Reality
Post-44.

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

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Mantram - 4.29: Birthlessness – Essential Nature of Reality:

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Ajaatam jaayate yasmaat, = You have taken the Birthless to be ‘born’; 

2 

ajaatih prakritih tatah; = Birthlessness is the essential nature of the Reality. 

 3 

prakriteh anyathaa bhaavah, = The transmutation of this nature into anything else  

4 

na kathan-chit bhavishyati. = is never possiblein any way whatsoever! 

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The statement made speaks for itself. It presents the conclusion to the wholeargument. The Bhashya comments as follows: 

“From the reasons already cited (i.e. from verse 4.3 onwards), it is established that Brahman is Unborn and is One. The present verse is meant for summing up, in the form of a result, what was presented in the beginning as a proposition.” 

The whole Vedantic Truth rests on this result. It is the rock foundation of Vedanta. The entire argument is brought to a conclusion with the above statements of the Vedantin which have been developed from verse 3 up to verse 23 and are not repeated here. The full context of the Vedantic conclusion is seen in the light of the other schools of thought. The bottom-line is that Vedanta’s Reality is unchanging, immutable and indestructible. Upon it rests the whole Creation as a superimposition! 

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Next

BONDAGE vs. LIBERATION: Karika Section 4.5:   Mantras30-32 (3 No.) 

THIS SECTION DEALS WITH the concepts of Bondage and Liberation. From the relative standpoint, these concepts have been very useful to us to point the way to the Reality, Brahman. The present section takes a standpoint from Reality on the same concepts. Not surprisingly, the result is quite startling. [In this discussion, some of the earlier discussions are repeated. The explanation in such cases are kept to a minimum, and the previous verses are referred to.] 

Mantram: 4.30: Samsara & Liberation are Initial Concepts  

Continued

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know the self, know the self in Nature, know the self in Jiva, Further Oneness.

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