Om, Bhadram Karni Bha-Nuya-dhya-dhya-dhra, Bhadram-Pasya-hāsa'i-hushhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

So in the fourth chapter of the So, shanthes, shantay, shanty.

So in the fourth chapter of the Mandukya Karika, Gaudapada has been giving us his take on

Adwaita Vedantah in his own approach.

His approach is basically to show Adwaita through a critique of causality

he has told us that though it is the truth is that Turia is the only reality

existence consciousness place and everything else is an appearance of that Thuria and there is no causal link

between the reality and the appearance. He has told us that. But as we saw in the last class,

he does make, thank God, some allowance for poor humanity that the transactional truth or

Vawaharica satyam so within the realm of our day-to-day lives certainly you

can take it as a provisional or a transactional truth and you can behave

accordingly so for example if you're thirsty or a transactional truth and you can behave accordingly.

So, for example, if you are thirsty in a dream

and what you later see to be a dream,

so the water available in the dream will quench your thirst in the dream.

Similarly, if you're hungry in this waking world,

the food available in this waking world will satisfy your your hunger

and all the relationships in this world maintaining the body your health your

finances you're taking care of people around you your job all of those have a

certain provisional truth, transactional truth.

And Gurdapada agrees to that.

He says we should act according to the transactional truth.

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