قاعة القراءة

Alātaśānti Prakaraṇa (chapter IV: the quenching of the firebrand)

Gaudapada

One hundred verses. It opens with homage to "the best of bipeds" who awakened to the nature of phenomena; it refutes the Sāṃkhya and Vaiśeṣika theories of causation and examines the thesis of non-origination; it compares the experience of subject and object to the figures traced by a whirling firebrand (4.47–52); it distinguishes three levels of knowledge — ordinary, purified and supramundane — and concludes that consciousness does not touch phenomena, something "not taught by the Buddha" (4.99).