18 – Pragmatists, Linguists, Philologists | Superimpositions/False Identifications (Vikalpas) | Mandukya Karika | Swami Tattawamayananda - a podcast by Vedanta Society, San Francisco

Verses: Mandukya Karika 2.27, 2.28. Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda. Verses 20 - 28 of the second chapter describe the views of various non-Advaitin philosophers. They represent altogether 35 different 'vikalpas' (superimpositions) on the Atman.
Verses 27 - 28 deal with the views of thinkers like Pragmatists (those who are not interested in metaphysics), the followers of Smrti texts, the school o Grammar, mostly those who were the fanatical followers of linguistics and philosophy, especially the followers of the Paninian School of Sanskrit Grammer.

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