Mandukya Upanishad : belongs to the Atharva-Veda.
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... thumb", a figure which has been adopted in the later development of the Indian yoga to indicate the inmost individual soul, distinct from but constituting individual mind, life and body. Mandukya Upanishad speaks of the four-fold Self and describes the process of rising from stage to stage in terms of psychological symbolism, which can be understood more clearly in the light of the process of ... ing to sattwa or buddhi is the world of subtle objects while that corresponding to vijnana is the world of the Mighty Spirit, Prajna, the Lord of Wisdom, described as the sleep-self in the Mandukya Upanishad. Above that Mighty Spirit is the Unmanifested, avyakta, — the Self that is the Fourth of the Mandukya. But that Fourth, the incommunicable, has behind it the Purusha, that is the highest that... , intuitions, discriminations, the powers of Ila, Saraswati, Sarama, Daksha. And by constant repetition, we come to know the Universal and the Transcendental, the Third and the Fourth of the Mandukya Upanishad. As a consequence, the mind will know nothing but the Brahman, think nothing but the Brahman, the Life will move to, embrace, enjoy nothing but the Brahman, the eye will see, the ear hear, the ...
... states of consciousness, and one can enter and dwell in the higher supra-physical worlds. Description of Four states of Consciousness in the Mandukya Upanishad: Yogic Terms of States of Ignorance and Knowledge 29 Mandukya Upanishad speaks of the surface waking consciousness in which we ordinarily live as the state of wakefulness (jāgarita), where one feels and enjoys gross ... being retire when Page 39 they withdraw from the surface activities whether by sleep or inward-drawn concentration or by the inner plunge of trance." 31 According to the Mandukya Upanishad, there is, apart from the waking and dream-state, the sleep-state. The description of this state makes it clear that it is not the sleep-state of the physical mind but the yogic sleep-state. ...
... self of this fourth or the Turiya state, the Mandukya Upanishad speaks: "He who is neither inward-wise, nor outward-wise, nor both inward and outward wise, nor wisdom self-gathered, nor possessed of wisdom, nor unpossessed of wisdom, He who is unseen and incommunicable, unseizable, featureless, unthinkable, and 1 Mandukya Upanishad, 4. 2 3 5 Ibid., 5. 4... known only by an occult knowledge." 4 While in. this normal waking consciousness, a man becomes 1 The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 498-99. 2 Vide, in particular, Mandukya Upanishad and Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. 3 4 Letters on Yoga, p. 348. Page 71 externalised and gazes outward and rarely if ever inward (paraṁ paśyati nāntarātmari)... ons, that our mind and vital being retire when they withdraw by inward-drawn concentration from their absorption in surface activities. 1 Katha Upanishad, II. 1.1. 2 Mandukya Upanishad, 3. 3 Savitri, Book VII, Canto II, pp. 484-85. Page 72 It is because of its inward plunge bringing in its train a wealth of inner experiences, dreams and ...
... controls his mind, and when one becomes noble and truthful and good to everyone, one will come to know the Supreme Lord who is Immortal.43 Object of Yogic Knowledge: Mandukya Upanishad and other Upanishads Mandukya Upanishad speaks of the four-fold Self and describes the process of rising from state to state in terms of psychological symbolism, which can be understood more clearly in the light ...
... 42 Ibid., II. 1.5. 43 Vide., Ibid., 11.1.3-9,11.2.8. 44 Mandukya Upanishad, 3-7. 45 Kaivalya Upanishad, 1. 46 Isha Upanishad, 5. 47 RV., I.170.1. 48 Isha Upanishad, 8. Page 105 40 Ibid, 4, 50 Ibid., 1, 51 Ibid.,6-7 52 Ibid., 7. 53 Mandukya Upanishad, 5. 54 Taittiriya Upanishad, Bhriguvalli, Ch. V. 55 RV.,V.62 ...
... of the Ascetic All this is the Brahman; this Self is the Brahman and the Self is fourfold. Beyond relation, featureless, unthinkable, in which all is still. Mandukya Upanishad. (Verse 2) Mandukya Upanishad. (Verses 7) And still there is a beyond. For on the other side of the cosmic consciousness there is, attainable to us, a consciousness yet more transcendent,—t ...
... the enjoyer of abstractions, the Brilliant. Mandukya Upanishad 4. × The Unified, in whom conscious thought is concentrated, who is all delight and enjoyer of delight, the Wise.... He is the Lord of all, the Omniscient, the inner Guide. Mandukya Upanishad 5, 6. ...
... which all depends. The Mental cannot be Ishwara. It is the external consciousness, the inner consciousness, the superconscient that are meant [ by vaiśvānara, taijasa and prājña in the Mandukya Upanishad ]. The terms waking, dream, sleep are applied because in the ordinary consciousness of man the external only is awake, the inner being is mostly subliminal and acts directly only in a state of... the Self in the supracosmic consciousness. The individual of course participates, but these are conditions of the Self, not the Self and soul. The meaning of these expressions is fixed in the Mandukya Upanishad. Karana, Hiranyagarbha, Virat Three planes— (1) Karana (2) Hiranyagarbha (3) Virat The parallel between Vijnana or Karana Jagat of the Upanishad presided over by Prajna and equated ...
... consciousness which to us is a deep sleep,—for the mind there cannot maintain its accustomed functioning and becomes inconscient,—yet its name is He who knows, the Wise One, Prajna. "This" says the Mandukya Upanishad, "is omniscient, omnipotent, the inner control, the womb of all and that from which creatures are born and into which they depart." It answers, Page 181 therefore, closely enough... haphazard and incomplete sketch that can never be perfected into the divine image. Page 183 × See the Mandukya Upanishad for these brief and profound definitions. ...
... and just the adjective 'sleeping' in the context of ]'winds' can scarcely throw light on the profoundly stirring obscurity in the Ode's phrase, A hint of the basic truth comes to us from the Mandukya Upanishad in which three grades of being - the outer human, the inner occult, the inmost spiritual - are termed Jagrat (Wakefulness), Swapna (Dream), Sushupti (Sleep), with a final utter transcendent... mingled with 'Asiatic immensities' which were a little baffling at times yet never really 'vague'. What these im- Page 57 mensities hold can be caught as a hint not only from the Mandukya Upanishad but also from a brief correspondence between Sri Aurobindo and me in 1948. When I had asked him to help me draw inspiration from the 'overhead' planes which he had named Higher Mind, Illumined ...
... and along with it increasing pressure towards deeper and deeper self-knowledge. 29 Vide, Mandukya Upanishad, III.7. 30 Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, 1971, Vol. 20, pp. 500-3. 31 Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, SABCL, 1971, Vol. 18, p. 426. 32 Mandukya Upanishad, 5, 6. 33 Vide, Sri Aurobindo,, The Life Divine, SABCL, 1971, Vol. 18, pp. 501-23. ...
... , and as the result of the last a Page 337 supreme perfection, a complete and integral action of the whole being in the tranquil eternity of the immortal Spirit. And later in the Mandukya Upanishad the other symbols are cast aside and we are admitted to the unveiled significance. Then there emerges a knowledge to which modern thought is returning through its own very different intellectual ...
... What sublime & numerous echoes wake in our memory as we repeat this mantra. There comes to us the solemn stanza of the Gita, Ascharyavat pashyati kaschid enam...; there come the words of the Mandukya Upanishad, yachchanyat trikalatitam; the solemn assertion of the Kena, na tatra vag gacchati no manah; its subtle distinction avijnatam vijanatam vijnatam avijanatam; vividly there comes the great fable ...
... sleep of Superconscience, a massed Intelligence, blissful and the enjoyer of Bliss.... This is the omnipotent, this is the omniscient, this is the inner control, this is the source of all. Mandukya Upanishad. (Verses 5, 6.) We have to regard therefore this all-containing, all-originating, all-consummating Supermind as the nature of the Divine Being, not indeed in its absolute self-existence ...
... "turiyam .svid" (X.67.1) — "a certain fourth" — whose discoverer is said to have been Rishi Ayasya. This "turiya", however, is not to be mixed up with the fourth state going by that name in the Mandukya Upanishad (7, 12). The Rigvedic "fourth" is not the Mandukyan grand finale, the indescribable Supracosmic who is neither the concentrated "Prajna", the creator and lord of all, nor the subtle "Tejasa" ...
... which later ages broke up into many divergent strains and finally tended to narrow down to one predominant strain of other-worldly renunciation. The fourfold scheme of experience found in the Mandukya Upanishad is here: Virāt, the gross outer, called Waking—Hiranyagarbha, the subtle inner, called Dream— Prajnā, the causal inmost, called Sleep—the sheer absolute Self, simply called Turiya or Fourth. ...
... domain of happenings as real as - and in a true sense much more real than -the field of outward physical events. Simply because this realm of 43. Katha Vpanishad, II. 3.12. 44. Mandukya Upanishad, 7. 45. Ibid., 12 Page 158 spiritual reality is beyond the reach of man's normal experience and the grasp of his surface external perception and cognition, this should ...
... something which can give meaning to the multifarious movement of time and can change it to an evolving projection of the many-ness which is secretly present in an archetypal form in the One whom the Mandukya Upanishad sees to be "without a second". We must not forget that this Upanishad terms the full Reality fourfold and the deepest of the three other statuses, the status which opens into the fourth, is ...
... which later ages broke up into many divergent strains and finally tended to narrow down to one predominant strain of other-worldly renunciation. The fourfold scheme of experience found in the Mandukya Upanishad is here: Virat, the gross outer, called Waking - Hiranyagarbha, the subtle inner, called Dream - Prajnā, the causal inmost, called Sleep - the sheer absolute Self, simply called Turiya or Fourth ...
... existence. Modern psychology would call it the Subliminal or else the Collective Unconscious. But such labels do not carry us sufficiently into the poetic mystery here. It is only the ancient Mandukya Upanishad that supplies the right clue. There we have three stages of consciousness described: the waking stage, jāgrat, which looks outward on the physical cosmos, the dream stage, svapna, which looks ...
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... sleep,— for the mind there cannot maintain its accustomed functioning and becomes inconscient, — yet its name is He who knows, the Page 208 Wise One, prājña. "This," says the Mandukya Upanishad, "is omniscient, omnipotent, the inner control, the womb of all and that from which creatures are born and into which they depart." It answers, therefore, closely enough to the modern idea ...
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... Maid in the Mill, The, 119, 120,152, 153 Maitra, S. K., 20 Majumdar, R. C., 235 Majumdar, Ramachandra, 366,367 Malaviya, Madan Mohan, 227 Mandukya Upanishad, 169 Manikkavasagar, 497 Manicktolla (Gardens and bomb factory), 201, 288ff, 298fn, 306, 307, 309; mantra, 611,612,628ft, 635 Marlowe, Christopher, 655, 690 ...
... collective cityvision again occurred after a long period of detached scenes & isolated figures & actions. Sortilege 1) स्वप्नदृश्यानां भावानामन्तः संवृतस्थानमित्येतत्सिध्दं My. Up [Mandukya Upanishad (commentary)] p. 76. (given while reflecting on the swapnasamadhi). ie the contracted form of vision in the swapnasiddhi (limited in scope, momentary etc[)] is already established &, in a ...
... being published here for the first time, the other three for the first time in a book. The Spirit of Hinduism: God. Circa 1903-4. This piece opens with the first words of the Mandukya Upanishad. The Philosophy of the Upanishads. Circa 1904-6. Sri Aurobindo wrote this piece during the latter part of his stay in Baroda. (He seems to have left the manuscript in western ...
... unthinkable, undesignable by name, whose substance is the certitude of One Self, in whom world-existence is stilled, who is all peace and bliss—that is the Self, that is what must be known. Mandukya Upanishad. (Verse 7.) One sees it as a mystery or one speaks of it or hears of it as a mystery, but none knows it. Gita. (II. 29.) When men seek after the Immutable, the ...
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... said in the Taittiriya Upanishad to have discovered Mahas . The Rigveda's turiya , however, is not to be mixed with Page 234 the fourth state going by that name in the Mandukya Upanishad. The Rigvedic "fourth" is not the Mandukyan grand finale , the indescribable Supracosmic, but stands in that numerical position both from below and from above: it is above the lower triplicity ...
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... which to us is a deep sleep, — for the mind there cannot maintain its accustomed functioning and becomes inconscient, — yet its name is He who knows, the Wise One, Prajna. "This" says the Mandukya Upanishad, "is omniscient, omnipotent, the inner control, the womb of all and that from which creatures are born and into which they depart." It answers, therefore, closely enough to the modern idea ...
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... being in a body its promise of completeness and its spiritual significance. Page 794 × Prajna of the Mandukya Upanishad, the Self situated in deep sleep, is the lord and creator of things. × In the Buddhist theory ...
... lord of all, the omniscient, the inner Control. That which is unseen, indefinable, self-evident in its one selfhood, is the fourth part: this is the Self, this is that which has to be known. Mandukya Upanishad. (Verses 2-7.) A conscious being, no larger than a man's thumb, stands in the centre of our self; he is master of the past and the present;... he is today and he is tomorrow. ...
... × avalambana. × Mandukya Upanishad. × The Waking, Dream and Sleep states of the soul. ...
... Heaven. (T.U [Taittiriya Upanishad]) 4) Heredity & Evolution. (A.U [Aitareya Upanishad]) 5) The Realm of the Idea. (Vijnana) 6) The Play of God (Ananda) 7) The Triple Stair. (M.U [Mandukya Upanishad]). These seven & two more 8) The Twelve Upanishads. 9) Vedanta & its Children. In Veda— 1) The Secret of the Veda. 2) The Vedic Path of Truth. 3) The Gods of the Veda. ...
... AUM,—A the spirit of the gross and external, Virat, U the spirit of the subtle and internal, Taijasa, M the spirit of the secret superconscient omnipotence, Prajna, OM the Absolute, Turiya. — Mandukya Upanishad. × IX. 16-17. × ...
... Chhandogya Upanishad : Verily all this that is is the Brahman. × Mandukya Upanishad : The Self is the Brahman. × Isha Upanishad. ...
... when it became free adopted the following as its official motto: — satyam evajayate. From where is this motto derived, let us make a search. Page 240 It would be found in Mandukya Upanishad. What are Upanishads? They are the highest literature of India. It is in the Upanishads that we find the description of ancient India. Kings and princes and ordinary children are found here ...
... and a number of scientific or systematic bodies of intellectual knowledge came up Page 19 at an early stage. Actually, Vedangas had begun to develop even before the Upanishads. Mandukya Upanishad mentions six Vedangas: Shiksha (Phonetics); Kalpa (Rituology); Vyakarana (Grammar); Nirukta (Etymology); Chhandas (Metrics); and Jyotisha (Astronomy and Astrology). Each Vedanga takes up one ...
... & Noble Books, New York, paperback edition, 2004, p.49 9. Ibid., p.50 10. Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, 1971, Pondicherry, Vol.20, p.212 11. Mandukya Upanishad, 7 12. Sri Aurobindo, The LifeDivine, SABCL, 1971, Pondicherry, Vol.18, pp.21-22 13. Ibid., Collected Poems, Vol.5, 1971, p.134 14. Ibid., The Synthesis ...
... the seeking intellect, and a number of scientific or systematic bodies of intellectual knowledge came up at an early stage. Actually, Vedangas had begun to develop even before the Upanishads. Mandukya Upanishad mentions six Vedangas; Shiksha (Phonetics); Kalpa (Rituolgy); Vyakarana (Grammar); Nirukta (Etymology); Chhanda (Metrics); and Jyotish (Astronomy and Astrology). Each Vedanga takes up one aspect ...
... whatsoever (Purusānna param kiñcit). The ideal of the nirbeeja or nirvikalpa samadhi, a coplete self-loss by absorption in the immutable Absolute ¹Por a fuller description see Mandukya Upanishad. Page 44 is not the highest ideal, for it takes cognisance of only the peak state, and not of all the four constituent states of Brahman; and as the head of a man is not his whole ...
... and Ananda as well as the same when we ascend from Matter, Life and Mind. It is known by that term in the Rigveda as Sri Aurobindo interprets that scripture. It is not the "turiya" of the Mandukya Upanishad's gradation, the sheer Self beyond all manifestation, the utter Absolute distinct from the Self of "Sleep", "Dream" and "Waking". Or we may consider this "turiya" in the sense that for Sri Aurobindo... "fourth" in an archetypally cosmifying activity on which all cosmos from Overmind downward depends and which is their cause or Karana. Once we stop identifying the Rigveda's "turiya" with the Mandukya Upanishad's without any reservation, we shall grasp Sri Aurobindo's vision correctly in the context of our discussion. Page 179 ...
... capable of affecting the gross material body and even getting partly assimilated in it. The Taittiriya Upanishad speaks of five bodies (koshas) and Sri Aurobindo has recognised in its vijnanamaya kosha the supramental body which has to manifest in our earthly one. The same holds for the Mandukya Upanishad's karana sharira which is the causal "body of bliss with the mouth (or face) of knowledge". The attempt... a Supramentalised physical. I did not learn the idea from Veda or Upanishad and I do not know if there is anything of the kind there. What Page 50 I received about the Supermind was a direct, not a derived knowledge given to me; it was only, afterwards that I found certain confirmatory revelations in the Upanishad and Veda." 3 Mark the turns: "a new evolution" - and "a direct... the Supermind. The "certain confirmatory revelations in the Upanishad and Veda" allude to general hints or glimpses, almost by the way or at best in a kind of broad background. They could not be anything else since the concrete conscious possession of the Veda's satyam ritam brihat ("the true, the right, the vast") and of the Upanishads' vijnana or prajna would bring the knowledge and the force ...
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