kAraNa - kArya (cause and effect)

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Namaste.

 

In my reading of the GauDapAda kArika recently, I came across the

following verse:

 

kAryakAraNabaddhau tAv ishhyate vishvataijasau

prAjnah kAraNabaddhas tu dve tu turye na siddhyatah

 

It is held that those two, Vishva and Taijasa, are bound with cause and

effect, PrAjna is bound with cause, but in Turya neither of them (neither

the cause nor the effect) can be asserted.

 

Here, the cause (kAraNa) is non-grasping of the Truth (tattvAgrahaNa),

the effect (kArya) is grasping the Truth otherwise or wrongly

(anyathAgrahaNa). These two are common to both Vishva and Taijasa

(the wake-up and the dream states). In PrAjna (deep sleep state), there

is only tattvAgrahaNa, while in Turya, there is neither of them.

 

It is interesting that modern scientific investigators and as well,

the knowledge seekers (I mean the knowledge of iha lOka) stress on

cause and effect. That every effect has a cause and our investigation

is to find the cause for the effect or the effect of a cause. It is

amazing (as per my understanding) how vastly different is the lower

knowledge from the upper knowledge in which there is neither the cause

nor the effect.

 

Regards

Gummuluru Murthy

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Adau ante ca yAn nAsti, vartamAnepi tat tathA

GauDapAda in mAnDUkya kArikA

 

That which is not there at the beginning and which is not going to be

there at the end may just as well be considered as not there in the

present.

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