Mandukya Upanishad

With an Advaita Commentary from our Understanding

by Kenneth Jaques | 31,733 words

The Mandukya Upanishad is a short, just twelve verses, description of the material manifestation and the eventual return to unmanifest form of the Universe....

Chapter 4

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Invocation

Verse 1

Verse 2

Verse 3

Verse 4

Verse 5

Verse 6

Verse 7

Verse 8

Verse 9

Verse 10

Verse 11

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In this fourth and last chapter of the Karika Gaudapada once more restates the truth of non-origination in order to touch on the higher truths that arise from the fact of non-origination.
The most important, as it were, truth arising from non-origination is the statement "I" Alone Exist. This means that in Consciousness the seeing of all others is not provable as true. As in a dream it is only the awareness that is supported through this Consciousness or "I" that makes a judgement on its reality and as Gaudapada demonstrates Consciousness itself is the perceiver and the perceived, just as in a dream.
Another place this realisation of "I" Alone is alluded to is in the Kaivalya Upanishad

Last Updated: 24 February, 2015