MANDUKYA UPANISHAD : Chapter-1. "AGAMA PRAKARANA" ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Mantram-5, Discussion-6.

04/02/2018

MANDUKYA UPANISHAD

Chapter-1.

AGAMA PRAKARANA"
( The Scriptural Treatise )

Mantram-5

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Yatra  supto  na  kascana kamam  kamayate,

na  kascana  svapanam  pasyati,  tat  susuptam,

susupta-sthana  ekibhutah  prajnana-ghana

eva-nandamayo  hyananda-bhuk  ceto-

prajnah  trtiyah  padah.

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word by meaning : -

yatra = where;

suptah = self-ignorant;

na = not;

ekona  vimsati  mukhah = has nineteen mouths;

kascana  kamam = any  external  objects;

kamayate = desires;

na = does  not;

kascana  svapnam = any  dream;

pasyat = sees;

tat = that;

susuptam = is the deep-sleep  state;

susupta  sthanah = whose  fieldis  the  deep-sleep  state;

ekibhutah = unified;

prajnana  ghanah  eva = mass of mere consciousness;

ananda-mayah = full of bliss;

hi  ananda-bhuk = indeed  the  enjoyer of bliss;

cetah  mukhah = doorway to the experience ( of  waking  and  dream );

prajnah = is consciousness;

trtiyah  padah = the  thir quarter.

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The sum of Mantram : -
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That  is the  state  of  deep-sleep  wherein  the  sleeper  doesnot  desire any  objects,  nor  does  he  see  any  dream.
The  third  quarter  ( pada )  is  the  Prajna ( Consciousness )  whose  sphere  is  deep-sleep,  in  whom  all ( experiencees )  become  unified  or  undifferentiated,  who  is  verily  a  homogenous  mass  of  Consciousness  entire,  who  is  full  of  bliss,  who  is  indeed  an  enjoyer  of  bliss  and  who  is  the  gateway  for  the  projection  of  Consciousness  into  other  two  planes  of  Consciousness ---  'the  dream  and  the  waking'.
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Discussion-6.

{ Request to follow very closely, the brilliancy of Upanishads - is explored here, Mantram is the TRUTH, WITH GREAT ANCIENT BHARATIYA RISHI-S BRILLIANT DECLARATIONS }

Please REALISE THE GREATNESS OF OUR NATION, DO NOT TAKE SHELTER BEHIND SECULARISM ( TO PLEASE VOTE BANKS) AND DESTROY OUR CULTURE .....

6.1
Again, the Sruthi in trying to explain to us the nature of the 'sleeper' - the PRAJNA, defines it as the very gateway-of-knowledge.

Herein, we find that the highest poetry has wed ded the great philosophy, and this is the special beauty of the Upanishad-s.

The Rishi-s were not only philosophers but were very inpired poets at their seats of work.

In distinguishing the sleep-state as 'chit' the gateway of knowledge, the Master is trying to explain that the entire capacity to become aware of things is in this sleep-state consolidated and withdrawn into the homogenous mass.

6.2
From the sleep-state, it is projected outwards to illuminate the dream-condition and again, when the projection increases and comes to the external world, the same Consciousness makes it possible for us to know the worlds of objects outside, in the waking-state.

From the waking-state, when we withdraw our knowledge, attention or awareness from the external world of objects abd from the body, we come to illumine the world of the mind and the intellect, which is called the dream-state.

6.3
When again, we withdraw our attention from the dream-state, still interior to the inner world where the Consciousness becomes one homogenous mass, that condition of wakeless and dreamless state is called the deep-sleep-condition.

Thus, to consider the sleep as an archway, through which the striding procession or the shooting rays of Consciousness emerge out, to illumine the fields of dream and dales of the waking state - is indeed, an example of the higher poetry which can be made use of in the subjective analysis of the subtlest philosophy.

6.4
The Self, identifying Itself with this state of experience in the world, is, at that time, called 'PRAJNA'  - 'EGO' and this 'PRAJNA' is the third quarter of the Self.

Discussion ends.

Next : Mantram-6.

To be continued ...