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Gaudapada was one of the world’s greatest philosophers in seventh-century India. He invokes the mystical symbol ‘AUM’ (pronounced as ‘ohm’) pointing to the three states of consciousness (waking, dreaming and deep sleep) and the nature of reality itself. In the text on which this book is based, he writes that the waker, dreamer and deep-sleeper are like the roles that an actor plays at various times. All three states are the result of ignorance and error. Who we really are is the fourth aspect – the actor himself. If you see or feel a ‘thing’, then that ‘thing’ is not ‘real.’ So the waking world is no more real than the dream. ‘You’ have never been born. Nothing has ever been created. Causality is a myth. Discover your true nature to be Existence-Consciousness, without limitations, undivided and infinite, prior to time and space. Incredible? Read...and be convinced by the irrefutable logic of Gaudapada.
- Sales Rank: #1418412 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.49" h x .92" w x 5.32" l, 1.10 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 431 pages
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Your book on the Mandukya Upanishad and Gaudapada kArikA-sis the best introduction I have read on Advaita. Clear, succinct, knowledgeable without being pedantic. The book shows your deep grasp of the principles butwhat is exceptional is your ability to explain the dynamics without dumbing down. And the simplicity of your writing shows that you understand without recourse to abstruse and complicated reasoning. It means you know what you are writing about. A rare feat considering the amount of verbiage out there!
What struck me was your capacity to give the teachings context. TMP Mahadevan, Balasubramanian, TK Sundaram et al have published erudite books but, as Westerners, we fail to catch the nuances that they take for granted. You have given the teaching context, applicability, and awareness of implications and consequences. This is rare. With your Western education and culture you have managed to absorb the teaching within your background. One could go native so to speak and become a swami after intensive study at say Swami Dayananda's Arsha Vidya Ashram but that can be a trap for, by exchanging one set of 'clothes' ( physical, mental, emotional) for another, there is the danger in thinking one is now superior. You have avoided that trap and as a result your investigations have an authenticity lacking in many who 'explain'Advaita however versatile they may be in spouting Sanskrit and abstruse concepts.
Christopher Quilkey, Editor 'The Mountain Path',Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai, India.
About the Author
Dennis Waite has been a student of Advaita for over 25 years and maintains one of the most visited and respected websites on the subject. He lives in Bournemouth, England.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
A crystal clear explanation of Gaudapada's wisdom ...
By Charles J. Phelan
Dennis Waite has done it again! His previous works on Advaita have adroitly combined scholarly precision and fidelity to the source texts of Vedanta with a clear writing style that makes these ancient teachings far more accessible to those of us with little understanding of Sanskrit. Now, in his latest work, Mr. Waite has “drilled down,” as it were, from a broad discussion of Advaita to a specific examination of one of the most important texts of the tradition. The result is a book of great value to any serious student of Vedanta, and also to anyone interested in philosophy generally.
A-U-M, Awakening to Reality, is a study of the famous Mandukya Upanishad with the 215 verse commentary (kArikA-s) by Gaudapada. Judging from the extensive bibliography, it would appear that no potential source or translation was overlooked in this effort to penetrate the meaning of this Upanishad and Gaudapada’s commentary thereon. A full translation of the Upanishad is included in an Appendix, along with other useful reference material, including a glossary of Sanskrit terms.
In the main body of the book, Mr. Waite does something different from the usual sequence in which this work is laid out. Instead of a verse-by-verse translation, the author unfolds Gaudapada’s philosophy in logical segments, which form the core chapters on “The World Appearance,” “Causality,” “Creation,” “Nature of Reality,” “Self-Knowledge,” and “Practical Aspects.” This enables him to move back and forth and pull together verses from different sections of the kArikA-s as they apply to the philosophical problem under review. As a consequence, the reader is treated to a crystal clear explanation of Gaudapada’s wisdom by a scholar who has lived intimately with this teaching for decades.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A must read book
By bimal
I have read the book twice for two reasons, firstly, it is fascinating, and secondly I needed to comprehend new concepts to which I was first time introduced. I do not mind reading it again and again for the book will unfold some hidden materials which have escaped my notice. Advaita teaches that there is only One and perceived duality is on account of ignorance. Advaita is not only a philosophy but a teaching. It is mainly concerned with revealing the Reality behind the Creation. As an aside, it tells about ways and means in the human life to realise the Reality.
The book explains the teaching based on Mandukya Upanishad and Gaudapada Karrika which is a commentary on Mandykya. The Upanishad has only twelve mantras, yet it contains the core of a formidable teaching. The format of the book is reader-friendly. In the main section, it addresses the subject matter topic-wise rather than sequentially and it invariably cites reference to relevant section of the karrika. The Upanishad is transalated and explained in Appendix. The book has discussed such topics as are important and core to understand the teaching of Advaita. Unlike Introductiom in any other writing, the Introduction in the book is stimulating and inspiring and exhorts a reader to embark on the journey to the summit of Advaita.The explanation on A-U-M is simply fascinating. As I read it, I felt transported to a different zone.
Dennis Waite has once again proved that he is not only a qualified teacher but a writer par excellence who knows the pulse of the reader and for whom both the subject matter and the reader are important.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Lucid and exhaustive of most important book in Advaita Vedanata
By Amazon Customer
The Mandukya Upanishad, the shortest (it has just 12 verses) and , according to a general opinion, the most important of the 12 main Upanishads, has the added interest in being associated with the authoritative karikas of Gaudapada, grand-mentor of Shankaracharia, the initiator of Advaita Vedanta. Of the former it has been said that his is ‘a rational analysis of the totality of our experience in all three states: waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. Incomplete and insufficient will be any philosophy that is based on the waking state alone’ (Swami Brahmananda).
‘When everything has been said, the fact remains that Vedanta is the only way of thinking that claims to study life in all its aspects in a scientific manner. It treats of truth, wisdom, and happiness, subjects of eternal interest to mankind. The credit of having brought to the notice of thinkers the value of its all-comprehensive method revealed in the Upanishads, and of having successfully built an impregnable system on that solid basis, will ever belong to Gaudapada.’ (Swami Satchidanandendra Saraswati).
This new book, authored by the well-known (and, one could say, prolific writer in the field of Advaita Vedanta - this is his 7th book), has several features that make of it an important addition to the literature in this specialized area, one that is becoming much better known than it was some 10-20 years ago.
Beginning with a few general remarks, something that strikes the reader is the clarity of the writing and the logic of the exposition of its contents which, at first sight, appears to be an introductory text for the un-initiated. Far from it! - and it is not a question of its length (420 pages) or even of the exhaustive coverage of everything that is relevant to the Upanishad itself and Gaudapada’s running commentary in the karikas. Clear and didactic it is, but the tools (armamentarium), organization of the work, and employment of many important Sanskrit words together with their English translation, plus a long Glossary (41 pp.), make of this book an indispensable reference for the modern reader of both this important Upanishad and Gaudapada’s contribution.
An important feature of the book consists in the numerous references (81 in all!) – most of them with short-to-medium length descriptions of the tenets or arguments of the, mostly modern, authors consulted when DW was in the process of preparing this work (Annotated Bibliography – 33 pp.)
Apart from the illuminating Introduction (36 pp.) and ‘What the Mandukya Upanishad is About’ at the beginning, the following 7 sections are: The World Appearance, Causality, Creation, Nature of Reality, Self-Knowledge, Practical Aspects, and Conclusion. They are all important, certainly, but I found ‘Nature of Reality’ to be like a centre-piece.
There are 7 Appendices at the end, comprising altogether 95 pp. To give one an idea of the completeness of the work, one of the Appendices (No. 5) deals with pronunciation and transliteration, using a recently proposed method: ITRANS. Lastly, a full Index, containing also a list of all the karikas mentioned in the book.
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