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1. GAUDAPADA’S KARIKA COMPARED TO
CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY
Domenic Marbaniang
Sri Gaudapada, spiritual teacher of Sri Sankaracharya, wrote
a Karika in the early 8th century A.D. It was meant to provide
a systematic and rational exposition of the main teachings of
the Upanisads. It argues for the doctrine of non-dualism,
which basically states that reality is non-dual (the Indian
philosophers hesitated to use the term “monism” since they
thought that reality can only be talked of via negative). It
must be remembered that salvation or liberation in
Hinduism is chiefly from the cycle of rebirth; that is one
reason why the Christian term “born again” might not be
preliminarily understood by certain Hindus, Jains, and
Buddhists – since, for them salvation is a liberation from the
bondage of being reborn again and again.
In the Karika, however, there is nothing like emancipation
from physical rebirth. In fact, all such phenomenal concepts
of birth or rebirth are denied as false. Liberation or salvation
is synonymous with a renunciation of the empirical outlook
and the scientific postulate of causality through realization
of the truth of non-dualism. Liberation is not the
achievement of physical freedom from the chain of cyclical
time, but is the mental realization of empirical negation; in
other words of all subject-object, cause-effect
differentiations (i.e. of non-dualism).
2. Everything seems to be born because of the
empirical outlook; therefore there is nothing
that is eternal (IV.57).
As long as there is mental preoccupation with
causality, so long does the worldly state
continue…. (IV.56).
There is no dissolution, no origination, none in
bondage, none striving or aspiring for salvation,
and none liberated. This is the highest truth
(II.32).
That highest Bliss is located in one’s own Self. It
is quiescent, coexistent with liberation, beyond
description, and birthless…. (III.47).
Two chief arguments are as follows (for details please
consult my online manuscript Epistemics of Divine Reality,
pp. 73-84):
1. Argument from Dream: As objects in dream state
can’t be discerned as false, so can objects in the
waking state not be discerned as false (Whatever be
the arguments, one can’t escape the box of idealism)
– Mandukya Upanisad speaks of four states of
consciousness: dreaming, waking, dreamless sleep,
and pure consciousness (without subject-object
differentiations).
3. 2. Argument from Being: Being cannot come into
existence (for it already is), neither can non-being
come into existence (for what is not cannot be);
therefore, being is eternal. Applying the Cartesian
principal of doubt here, only the non-dual
(indubitable) Self exists, and its perception of all
plurality and causal phenomena is false, in the
rational sense.
To solve the problem of “causality” (though it is denied in
the purest sense) as to how the Self “comes” to be selfdeluded, the doctrine of Maya is introduced. Maya is similar
to magic, which also means that it “has no reality” (IV.58);
therefore, the empirical phenomena it “produces” are also
as unreal (as in magic). In fact, in the absolute sense, it does
not produce anything – this is only an accommodative
explanation; for where an explanation is anticipated, a
duality of subject-object is already presupposed; therefore,
the answer uses empirical analogies. There is nothing like
personal salvation, since “persons” don’t exist; and, there is
nothing like the salvation of Brahman (Being), since
Brahman can’t be liberated from anything – for It alone
exists, then from what would it be delivered; secondly, it is
immutable. Therefore, apologists are wrong when they
contend that liberation of one individual should mean the
liberation of Brahman (cf. Vishal Mangalwadi, World of
Gurus).
4. Obviously, this is too far from common-sense realism and
from the practicability of life. Therefore, the Karika
confesses:
Instruction about creation has been imparted
by the wise for the sake of those who, from the
facts of experience and adequate behavior,
vouch for the existence of substantiality, and
who are ever afraid of the birthless entity
(IV.42).
The doctrine of creation and dissolution in popular Vedic
religion, however, is not considered to be untrue; it is only
relatively true and has its function within the practical game
of phenomenal religious life. This is where the Vedic deities
in all their empirical plurality, diversification, attributes, and
finitudes blend with the realm of humans, animals, and
demons. This is the world of causality, naturality, plurality,
modality, and immanence. In other words, this is the world
of Maya.
Thus, the paradoxical doctrines of non-dualism and
pluralism are made parallel.
The Significance of Christian Theology as an Answer
1. It posits God as transcendent and yet immanent in
relation to creation – thus, eliminating the
ontological problem of being and causality. He is
always eternal and created the world out of nothing.