Mandukya Upanishad

Mandukya Karika, verse 4.94 Text वैशारद्यं तु वै नास्ति भेदे विचरतां सदा । भेदनिम्नाः पृथग्वादास्तस्मात्ते कृपणाः स्मृताः ॥ ९४ ॥ vaiśāradyaṃ tu vai nāsti bhede vicaratāṃ sadā | bhedanimnāḥ pṛthagvādāstasmātte kṛpaṇāḥ smṛtāḥ || 94 || 94. Those who always rely on (attach themselves to) separateness can never realise the innate purity of the Self Therefore those who are drowned in the idea of separateness and who assert the separateness of (entities) are called narrow-minded....

Mandukya Karika, verse 4.95 Text अजे साम्ये तु ये केचिद्भविष्यन्ति सुनिश्चिताः । ते हि लोके महाज्ञानास्तच्च लोको न गाहते ॥ ९५ ॥ aje sāmye tu ye kecidbhaviṣyanti suniścitāḥ | te hi loke mahājñānāstacca loko na gāhate || 95 || 95. They alone are said to be of the highest wisdom who are firm in their conviction of the Seif unborn and ever the same. This, ordinary men cannot understand. Shankara Bhashya (commentary) That this knowledge of the Supreme Reality is incapable of being understood by the poor intellect, by the unwise,1 i....

Mandukya Karika, verse 4.96 Text अजेष्वजमसंक्रान्तं धर्मेषु ज्ञानमिष्यते । यतो न क्रमते ज्ञानमसंगं तेन कीर्तितम् ॥ ९६ ॥ ajeṣvajamasaṃkrāntaṃ dharmeṣu jñānamiṣyate | yato na kramate jñānamasaṃgaṃ tena kīrtitam || 96 || 96. Knowledge (consciousness), the essence of the Jīvas (who are unborn), is admitted to be itself unborn and unrelated (to any external object). This knowledge is proclaimed to be unconditioned as it is not related to any other object (which, really speaking, does not exist)....

Mandukya Karika, verse 4.97 Text अणुमात्रेऽपि वैधर्म्ये जायमानेऽविपश्चितः | असंगता सदा नास्ति किमुताऽऽवरणच्युतिः ॥ ९७ ॥ aṇumātre'pi vaidharmye jāyamāne'vipaścitaḥ | asaṃgatā sadā nāsti kimutā''varaṇacyutiḥ || 97 || 97. The slightest idea of variety (in Ātman) entertained by the ignorant bars their approach to the unconditioned. The destruction of the veil (covering the real nature of Ātman) is out of the question. Shankara Bhashya (commentary) If persons, through ignorance, think,—as those who differ from us assert—that an entity (i....

Mandukya Karika, verse 4.98 Text अलब्धावरणाः सर्वे धर्माः प्रकृतिनिर्मलाः । आदौ बुद्धास्तथा मुक्ता बुध्यन्त इति नायकाः ॥ ९८ ॥ alabdhāvaraṇāḥ sarve dharmāḥ prakṛtinirmalāḥ | ādau buddhāstathā muktā budhyanta iti nāyakāḥ || 98 || 98. All Dharmas (i.e., Jīvas) are ever free from bondage and pure by nature. They are ever illumined and liberated from the very beginning. Still the wise speak of the Jīvas as capable of knowing (‘the Ultimate Truth’)....

Mandukya Karika, verse 4.99 Text क्रमते न हि बुद्धस्य ज्ञानं धर्मेषु तापि (यि) नः । सर्वे धर्मास्तथा ज्ञानं नैतद्बुद्धेन भाषितम् ॥ ९९ ॥ kramate na hi buddhasya jñānaṃ dharmeṣu tāpi (yi) naḥ | sarve dharmāstathā jñānaṃ naitadbuddhena bhāṣitam || 99 || 99. The knowledge of the wise one, who is all-light, is ever untouched by objects. All the entities as well as knowledge (which are non-djfferent) are also ever-untouched by any object....

Mandukya Karika, verse 4.100 Text दुर्दर्शमतिगम्भीरमजं साम्यं विशारदम् । बुद्ध्वा पदमनानात्वं नमस्कुर्मो यथाबलम् ॥ १०० ॥ durdarśamatigambhīramajaṃ sāmyaṃ viśāradam | buddhvā padamanānātvaṃ namaskurmo yathābalam || 100 || 100. Having realised that condition (i.e., the knowledge of the Supreme Reality) which is extremely difficult to be grasped, profound, birthless, always the same, all-light, and free from multiplicity, we salute It as best as we can. Shankara Bhashya (commentary) The treatise is now completed....