Shronya: If you look at the Buddhist interpretation, it is not just nothing. Many Advaitic scholars would not agree and many Buddhist scholars wouldn't agree. But I would definitely think so. And the more you closely follow it, the more the parallels are remarkable. You see, it is like this. Is gold an ornament? Because, you know, what I was trying to say is, let's say that you remove the gold from the ornament and the ornament is gone. The gold is there. Yes. Shronya: With consciousness, since we cannot describe it, we cannot, you know,. it works, we cannot description it. So that's where the nothing
Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches one of the shortest and most profound upanishads accompanied by Gaudapada's Karika. This lecture covers Karika 22-23 and Mantra 12.