Mandukya-karika

But what does Advaita do? What does Advaita do? Advaita makes the mind into no mind.

Gaudapada says, "Amanitava." It's a, uh, it's a concept from Mandukya Karika.

The Advaita prakarana of Mandukya Karika.

Amanitava.

No mind.

This is why Bhagavan taught us, t- this is why Bhagavan taught us that what we now take to be the waking state is actually just a dream, and that nothing that we experience in this so-called waking state is any more real than anything we experienced in any other dream.

This is also what was taught by Gaudapada in his Mandukya Karika.

But the majority of people who consider themselves to be Advaita Vedantins are not willing to accept that this waking state is actually just a dream.

So they try to explain this simple teaching away in various ways.

So there's no cause for anything because there is no thing.

A little bit this is sound- sounding like Ajatavada of Mandukya Karika and Gaudapada, where it's like if you ask them, "How do I end my suffering?" You know, I like to make this joke.

If...

Imagine in the second, third century, you go to meet Gaudapada, and he's probably sitting in a cave.

This is Hinduism.

This is Ajatavada.

This is Gaudapada's Mandukya Karika." But no, she's right.

Like, a lot of this is Buddhistic in that it plays on falsity and voidness and illusion.