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ajativada

अजातिवाद ajātivāda

Gaudapada's doctrine of non-origination: that nothing is ever, in the deepest sense, truly born or destroyed, because the changing world never really arises out of the changeless one.

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  • What is Advaita Vedanta? Philosophy

    Gaudapada teaches ajativada , the doctrine of "non-origination": that nothing is ever, in the deepest sense, truly born or destroyed at all, because the changing world never really arises out of the changeless …

  • The Ashtavakra Gita Philosophy

    …from doctrine: because the Ashtavakra Gita seems to carry the seed of ajativada , the teaching of non-origination — the idea that nothing is ever truly born or created — that Gaudapada later systematised in his…

  • What is Vedanta? Philosophy

    … — a verse commentary on that shortest Upanishad — already argues for ajativada , the doctrine of non-origination, the startling claim that nothing is ever really born or destroyed at all.

  • What remains Treatise

    Gaudapada's doctrine is called ajativada , the teaching of non-origination, and it says something that seems, at first, to cancel every page that came before it.

  • The Mandukya Upanishad: twelve verses, four states, one sound Treatise

    This is ajativada , the doctrine of non-origination, and it is the same claim in Book Two and Book Four, stated once as psychology and once as metaphysics: verse 3.48 and verse 4.71 make it in nearly identical …

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