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....
Verse 4
4. No existent whatever is originated; a non existent is assuredly not originated; those dualists (disputants) indeed disputing thus proclaim non origination.
Gaudapada here states the logical case. That that exists eternally (the truly existent) cannot have a beginning or origination. That that does not exist (existence as a true entity) will not have origination or birth. Having true existence means an entity that is not comprised of a mixture of other entities, like the clay pot. The Earthen clay pot exists in name only, in reality it is made of earth.