Ajatavada - Theory of non origination
of Creation
Dear All,
Those few blessed
souls who are able to reach up to Mandukya Karika and absorb the verses which
are going to be given today, have nothing more to learn, nothing more to
experience. They indeed attain the state exactly explained in today’s verses.
They are/ were never born, never will they die and hence, the question of their
rebirth does not arise at all.
For the rest 99.99%
of human race, today’s verses will make, AT BEST, a good reading, never ever to
be experienced in life time, unless, miracle happens and God makes them
realize. When the author talks about miracle, he shall in fact remain silent on
the same because, in its essence, miracle can happen to anyone on this earth,
on any day.
What was Kalidasa,
a day before He got the blessings of Goddess Kali and after that night, what He
went on to become? The world knows!
Now, to the theory
given by Sri Gauda pada.
- Sanskrit word जात means originate or create/born and अजात means no-origination or no-creation/unborn. Ajatavada means the doctrine of no-origination or non-creation.
- According to Gaudapada there is no creation and delusion. The supreme truth is not subject to creation, transformation and delusion. This is also called paramartha sathya.
Quoting some verse from Gaudapada Karika on
Mandukya Upanishad:
2-32 There is neither dissolution nor creation,
none in bondage and none practicing disciplines. There is none seeking
Liberation and none liberated. This is the absolute truth.
3-2 Therefore I shall now describe Brahman,
which is unborn, the same throughout and free from narrowness. From this one
can understand that Brahman does not in reality pass into birth even in the
slightest degree, though it appears to be manifest everywhere.
3-15 The scriptural statements regarding the
creation, using the examples of earth, iron and sparks, are for the purpose of
clarifying the mind. Multiplicity does not really exist in any manner.
3-26 On account of the incomprehensible nature
of Atman, the scriptural passage "Not this, not this" negates all
dualistic ideas attributed to Atman. Therefore the birthless Atman alone
exists.
3-36 Brahman is birthless, sleepless, dreamless,
nameless and formless. It is ever effulgent and omniscient. No duty, in any
sense, can ever be associated with It.
3-48 No jiva ever comes into existence. There
exists no cause that can produce it. The supreme truth is that nothing ever is
born.
4-15 Those who say that the effect is the cause
of the cause and that the cause is the cause of the effect maintain, actually,
that the creation takes place after the manner of the birth of father from son.
4-22 Nothing whatsoever is born, either of
itself or of another entity. Nothing is ever produced, whether it be being or
non—being or both being and non—being.
4-28 Therefore neither the mind nor the objects
perceived by the mind are ever born. To see their birth is like seeing the
footprints of birds in the sky.
4-30-31 If, as the dualists contend, the world
is beginningless, then it cannot be non—eternal. Moksha (Liberation) cannot have
a beginning and be eternal. If a thing is non—existent in the beginning and in
the end, it is necessarily non—existent in the present.
4-58 Birth is ascribed to the jivas; but such
birth is not possible from the standpoint of Reality. Their birth is like that
of an illusory object. That illusion, again, does not exist.
4-71 No jiva ever comes into existence. There
exists no cause that can produce it. The supreme truth is that nothing ever is
born.
Even reading today’s verse is an
impossible happening/ endeavor. Hence, author shall try, with Sai’s
grace, to explain the essence of the above verses in the next and perhaps
the concluding post on the theme “Creation of Universe”.
Love.
