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 2.10
10. (K18) Therefore, this false notion arises from some cause (due to ignorance), and so it is unreal, and would cease when instruction is imparted by a Teacher. This is the saying of the wise, that when the One is known, the Two ceases to exist.—25.
Notes.
[Note.—Yadi—if, unreal. The word yadi here means the unreal, as explained in the Bhāgavata XI. Book.]
[Note.—Upadeśāt—through instruction (given by the Teacher or by the Lord) after this arises bliss of Mukti.]
Note.—The false notion of “I” and “mine,” when everything is really “Lord’s,” is the creation of some cause that has its root in ignorance, It is consequently unreal, and so it can be destroyed through right knowledge and true instruction given by a teacher. When such knowledge is obtained, then arises the great bliss of Mukti. The perfects say that when the Brahman is known, the unreality ceases and bliss arises.
The Vikalpa or wrong notion that the body, houses, etc., arc mine and belonging to me is really not an idea that has any truth in it, it is nob Svabhāvika. But even, if any one owing to ignorance or “common sense” were to make it a svabhāvika thing, by thinking that it is a reality, still even by proper instruction, given by a teacher it would come to an end. For this is the saying of the wise “jñāte dvaitaṃ na vidyate”—“knowing Brahman rightly, the false knowledge comes to an end.” These last verses have been taken also by Madhva to prove the reality of the world, in opposition to the theory of its being an illusion.