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""""86 THE DOCTRINE OF MAYAknown as Aldta-cakra is a very common sight in thestreets, where littleboys play in the evening afterhaving finished their daily school-task.The firstpart, as already remarked, being basedon the Upanisad, Gaudapada could give an uncheckedflight to his thoughts only in the other three parts.These are therefore more important for our purpose.We here give a brief summary of the Advaitism ofthis great teacher, which ispermeated with the conception of Maya."Boldly and truly Gaudapada asserts the world doesnot exist in reality hence this; Maya cannot beliterally removed or destroyed even. All this ismere appearance, in sooth it is Advaita. In otherwords, the metaphysical truth is that the world doesnot exist, the multiplicity is false, hence being not areality it does not stand in need of removal (i. 17).Nobody ever MADE may a it is;not a reality,hence it ismeaningless to speak of it as to be removed." When the highest truth is realized theillusion itself isdestroyed (i. 18).In the second part Gaudapada explains the unreality (vaitathya) of all multiplicity by showingthat the world which people call real is no more realthan a dream-world. The two worlds are alike inthis respect, the only difference is that the wakingworldis external, while the dream-world is internal.But as witnessed by the same self they are the same,both being within the body in a subtle form (ii. i).Sankara explains this stanza logically thus