Mandukya Upanishad (Gaudapa Karika and Shankara Bhashya)
by Swami Nikhilananda | 1949 | 115,575 words | ISBN-13: 9788175050228
This is the English translation of the Mandukya Karika by Gaudapada, which is a commentary on the Mandukya Upanishad. The school of philosophy this book attempts to expose is ‘Advaita Vedanta’, a non-dualistic path to spiritual realization of the self. Many of the verses from the Karika attempt to illustrate the identification of the Atman (self) ...
Quotes
“If the sole object be the attainment of the Highest Truth (the supreme goal of existence) the single Upaniṣad of Māṇḍūkya is sufficient.”—Muktikopaniṣad.
“The Upaniṣad (Māṇḍūkya) with the Kärikā embodies in itself the Quintessence of the substance of the entire philosophy of Vedānta.”—Śaṅkara,
THE MĀṆḌŪKYOPANIṢAD
WITH
GAUḌAPĀDA’S KĀRIKĀ