MANDUKYA UPANISHAD : Chapter-1. "AGAMA PRAKARANA" ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Mantram-5, Discussion-2.

04/01/2018

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-2.

Our knowledge of the world is only a sum-total pf our perceptions gathered fromnthe views we gain through the five apprtures in the walls of our body-edifice!

All thet we know of the world-of-objects is the sum-total of the reports gained by us through our five sense-organs.

Sleep is a condition wherein the mind and intellect retire and therefore it is a state of living in which all these appertures are closed down!


Thus in sleep we exerience a mere all-round ignorance or complete negativity.

The only thing we experience in sleep is a state which has neither form nor sound, nor taste, nor smell, nor touch.

In short, the only thing we know in sleep is that :-

"We have no knowledge."


Thus, the scientific-minded materialist of the modern world, will, have to wait for even the discovery of a new language to express the realm where the sense-organs dare not enter. 

To be continued ...