MANDUKYA UPANISHAD with GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA: 48 - Swami Advayananda.

 

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Monday 03, March 2025, 11:25.
MANDUKYA UPANISHAD 
GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA
Agama Prakarana – “The Scriptural Treatise”
GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA:  PART 4/4:   
ALAATA-SHANTI PRAKARANA (100 mantras): 
Quenching the Firebrand:
The Illusion of CAUSALITY  
Karika Section 4.6:   Mantras - 33-41   (9 No.) 
Mantram -  4.33: The Falsity of Dream – Space Limit   ((cf. Mantram 2.2) 
Post-48.

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The Illusion of CAUSALITY:  

Karika Section 4.6:   Mantras 33-41  (9 No.)

EARLIER DISCUSSIONS IN Vaitathya Prakarana, repeated below, declared the unreality of dream and waking states based on factors such as space, time, transactions and dream-objects. 

In the first four verses respectively, the four principles mentioned in Chapter 2 are more or less repeated in the context of causality of dream and waking states. The words of these four verses are only slightly different from those encountered earlier. 

The four principles are: 

Mantram - 4.33 – i) Too little space exists to contain all the dream objects we see.

Mantram - 4.34 – ii) Too little time to reach the scene of dream or return from it. 

Mantram - 4.35 – iii) Dream transactions are in a different reality from the waking reality. Transactions in dream cannot be counted in the waking reality.  

Mantram - 4.36 – iv) Dream objects, like the body, are not counted in the waking reality. 

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Mantram - 4.33: The Falsity of Dream – Space Limit  

Mantram - 4.33: The Falsity of Dream – Space Limit   ((cf. Mantram 2.2) 

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