Mandukya Upanishad (Madhva commentary)
by Srisa Chandra Vasu | 1909 | 15,464 words | ISBN-13: 9789332869165
The English translation of the Mandukya Upanishad including the commentary of Madhva called the Bhasya. The describe the secret meaning of Om as the four names and aspects of the Lord (Vishva, Taijasa, Prajna and Turiya). This Upanishad is associated with the Atharva Veda and contains tweelve verses although Madhva reads the Gaudapada’s Karikas as ...
Karika verse 2.8
8. (K16) When the Jīva awakens from the sleep, in which it was plunged by the eternal will of the Beginning-less Lord, then he gets the direct vision of the Lord who is without birth, without ignorance, without delusion and who removes all wrong knowledge—23.
Notes.
[Note.—Anādi—beginning-less. Viṣṇumāyā is called beginning-less because belonging to the time-less Viṣṇu.]
[Note.—Mayayā—by the power, by the Will: by the Prakṛti, as being under the will of Viṣṇu. The word Māyā means the will of the Lord, and the Avīdyā [Avidyā?] who is dependent on Him.]
[Note.—Prabuddhyate—awakens, gets wisdom through (the will of God and His grace and the instruction given by a True Master.) Hears the truth that the Lord alone is Independent, everything else is dependent on him.]
[Note.—Asvapnam (Asvapna)—the non-dreaming, beyond the waking and the dreaming states—free from delusion. Free from the activities of Viśva, Taijasa and Prājña forms.]
[Note.—Advaitam (Advaita)—giver of freedom from wrong knowledge, or the remover of false notions, and of all evils.]
[Note.—Buddhyate—understands or knows immediately (aparokṣa), then arises the direct, intuitive, immediate knowledge of God.]
Madhva’s commentary called the Bhāṣya:
When the Jīva, sent to sleep by the Māyā or Will of the Anādi or the Beginning-less Vīṣnu [Viṣṇu?], is awakened by the grace of that will, then it sees Vīṣnu [Viṣṇu?]. Thus we read in the Prakāśikā. (Understanding the Advaita [advaitam] means seeing Viṣṇu).