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

27/12/2017

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-1.

Sleep  is  a  condition  very  little,  yet,  known  in  the  west  and  even  the  Western  psychology  is  shy  of  trying  to  discuss  this  experience  of  the  mind.

The  difficulty  in  describing  sleep  is  in the  fact  during  the  time  of  sleeping  is  in  the  fact  that  during  the  time  of  sllping,
we  experience  none  of  the  worlds  of  our  usua;  instruments  of  cognition,  as  they  are  at  work  then.

All  that  we  know  is  that  it  is  a  state  of  complete  negation  of  all  that  we  know  of.

To be continued ...

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