Verse 1.17 प्रपञ्चो यदि विद्येत निवर्तेत न संशयः । मायामात्रमिदं द्वैतमद्वैतं परमार्थतः ॥ १७ ॥ prapañco yadi vidyeta nivarteta na saṃśayaḥ | māyāmātramidaṃ dvaitamadvaitaṃ paramārthataḥ || 17 ||
Will the world go away after i realise “Turiya” , will I be light ? here Gaudapadacharya says – if the world was there then there is question of staying or going arises , but there is no such world at all !!
Will the snake run away after I realise it is a rope ….the correct answer is, there is no snake to run away from …it was a rope only !
प्रपञ्चो यदि विद्येत (prapañco yadi vidyeta) निवर्तेत न संशयः (nivarteta na saṃśayaḥ) – If the world existed !! No doubt it would have gone have away! (But the world does not exists just like snake does not exist)
मायामात्रमिदं ( māyāmātramidaṃ) – It is an error , just like snake is an error !
dvaitamadvaitaṃ paramārthataḥ (द्वैतमद्वैतं परमार्थतः ) – It (Turiya) is an undivided reality i.e. Non-dual reality. There is no world separate from you which has to be driven away!
