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The Gaudapada Karika Quotes

Reincarnation As long as a person clings to the belief in causality, he will find cause producing effect. But when this attachment to causality wears away, cause and effect become non-existent. As long as a person clings to the belief in causality, samsara will continue to expand for him. But when this attachment to causality wears away, samsara becomes non-existent. (4.55-56) [Samsara ('a flowing with'): the phenomenal flux, the karmic wheel, that which is constantly changing, the cycle of birth, old age, disease & death.] The birthlessness of the mind, which is free from manifestation arid causal relationship, is absolute and constant. For duality [i.e. the perceiving mind and its objects] is merely an objectification of the mind.

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