Vishnu and his attributes as a similes for deciphering the shlokas of the Mandukya Upanishad Modern commentators According to Aurobindo, Brahman, which has the potentiality of becoming, has created out an existence which has a relation between itself. This existence with its experience of becoming and having relation with the absolute is called as Self or purusha, the principle or power of becoming is called as nature or prakriti. Swami Rama has provided an interpretation of this Upanishad from the experiential standpoint in his commentary Enlightenment without God. Ramachandra Dattatrya Ranade calls the aphoristic style of Mandukya Upanishad as highly influential on the Sutras of Indian philosophies that followed it, and that the Upanishad has served as a foundational text of the major Vedanta school of Hinduism. He states, Ranade's views on the importance of Mandukya Upanishad and Gaudapada's commentary on Vedanta school, particularly Advaita Vedanta sub-school of Hinduism, is shared by modern era scholars such as Hacker, Vetter and others. Johnston states that Mandukya Upanishad must be read in two layers, consciousness and vehicles of consciousness, Self and nature of Self, the empirical and the eternal. The text aphoristically condenses these layers of message, both in literal and metaphorical sense. William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet, was inspired by the Upanishads and Mandukya Upanishad was among the texts he commented on.Bruce Wilson (1982), "From Mirror after Mirror: Yeats and Eastern Thought," Comparative Literature, Vol. 34, No. 1, pages 28-46 David Stoll's 1987 Piano Quartet is inspired by three Upanishads, one being Mandukya Upanishad, other two being Katha and Isha Upanishads. See also Adi Shri Gauḍapādāchārya Adi Shri Shankaracharya Advaita Shri Gaudapadacharya Mutt Shri Govinda Bhagavatpadacharya Notes References Sources Published sources Web-sources Further reading Eight Upanishads. Vol.2. With the commentary of Sankaracharya, Tr. By Swami Gambhirananda. Advaita Ashrama, Calcutta, 1990. V. Krishnamurthy. Essentials of Hinduism. Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi. 1989 Swami Rama. Enlightenment Without God [commentary on Mandukya Upanishad]. Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy, 1982. Sri Aurobindo, The Upanishads . Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. 1972. External links https://archive.org/details/MandukyaUpanihadBook Tamil The Mandukya Upanishad/Karika, Shankara’s Commentary and Anandagiri’s Tika Translated by Swami Nikhilananda, online ebook Mandukya Upanishad Robert Hume (Translator), Oxford University Press Multiple translations (Johnston, Nikhilānanda, Dvivedi, Panoli) Mandukya Upanishad with Gaudapada Karika Part 1 of a Vedanta class by Swami Sarvapriyananda on the Mandukya Upanishad Part 2 of a Vedanta class by Swami Sarvapriyananda on the