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Āgama Prakaraṇa (chapter I: the revealed tradition)

Gaudapada

Twenty-nine verses interspersed with the twelve paragraphs of the Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad. It describes the ātman in waking (viśva), dreaming (taijasa) and deep sleep (prājña), and the non-dual "fourth" (turīya), which is neither cause nor effect; it reviews the current theories of creation — expansion, dream, illusion, divine will, time — and identifies the states with the sounds A, U and M of the syllable Om, whose final silence is turīya.