SEE HERE- NOW: GAUDAPADA'S . EARLY ADVAITA WRITER DANIEL SIMPSON Wake up! What we think of as life is a dream. Everything is one, and the rest is illusion. It is hard to express liberating insights without sounding banal. Perhaps mindful of the limits of words, some of the reveal this as the earliest teachings on oneness say their message is syllable!” declares the seem diverse, the (1 the source of all forms, which both contains them and Although only 12 verses long, the is said to teach the essence of all of the about reality ( the says ( , (meaning verses) on the came a the or but, at the turn of the twentieth century, the German scholar Paul Deussen 2 Deciphering Advaita editions of his commentary combine it with verses from the , sometimes arguing that he the eighth century, it became the most influential form wrote both, because the uses technical 50 Echoing the – ( considered that the teachings of the 3 states 4 Regardless, it borrows from Buddhism, As a result, there is nothing to do but get out of the 51 mislead us, though we might still notice it for everyday the son of a barren woman to be born either really or watching until they dissolve in the vastness of are afraid of it, because they see fear in that which is really fearlessness,” he says ( ( 5 Another modern remembering that they beget only misery,” discover that you are neither the body nor the mind, Non-contact yoga when the mind ceases to act,” ( 52 1 2 3 7 4 5 being of all creatures and is free from strife and 7 clinging to their conclusions, contradict one another,” ( 53.