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Māṇḍūkya Kārikā: The Most Radical Text of Advaita Vedānta

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Posted on December 31, 2025December 31, 2025
in Ancient India

Among all texts of Indian philosophy, few are as compact, daring, and philosophically uncompromising as the Māṇḍūkya Kārikā. Written by Gaudapada, this extraordinary work transforms the shortest Upaniṣad into one of the deepest metaphysical systems…

Gaudapada: The Radical Philosopher Who Laid the Foundations of Advaita Vedānta

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Posted on December 30, 2025December 30, 2025
in Ancient India

Indian philosophy has produced many towering thinkers, but few were as intellectually daring and metaphysically uncompromising as Gaudapada. Long before Advaita Vedānta became the dominant philosophical framework of Hindu thought, Gaudapada articulated its deepest principles…