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Advaita Prakaraṇa (chapter III: non-duality)

Gaudapada

Forty-eight verses. It criticizes devotion that presupposes a born brahman, explains the relation between the ātman and individuals through the image of space within jars, reads the Upaniṣadic creation accounts (clay, iron, sparks) as teaching devices, quotes the Bṛhadāraṇyaka's "neti neti" and describes asparśa-yoga, the state of a mind that ceases to imagine objects. It ends by affirming that no living being is born (3.48).