UPANISHAD MANDUKYA : Chapter-1. Agama Prakarana ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Sri Gaudapada's glossary begins : Karika Slokam-s 1 to 9. Slokam-2. Discussion-5.

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Mandukya Upanishad :

Chapter-1. Agama Prakarana ( The Scriptural Treatise )

Sri Gaudapada's glossary begins :

Karika Slokam-s 1 to 9.

Slokam-2.

"Daksinaksjasahi-mukhe visvo manasy-antastu taijasah,
akase ca hrdi prajnas-tridha dehe vyavasthitah."

daksina aksi mukke - ( is in the  ) right eye;
visvah - visva;
antah manasi - ( is ) within the mind;
tu - whereas;
taijasah - taijasa;
akase hrdi - ( is in the ) space within the heart;
ca prajnah - and prajna;
tridha - in three different ways;
dehe - in the body;
vyvasthitah - ( is ) placed.

"Visva works from the right eye, Taijasa from the mind, and Prajna from the heart-space. Thus, the one Self is conceived as working from the three headquarters as three distinct entities."

Discussion-5.

If the poison in a serpent is not killing the serpent, it is because it is well protected and kept in the sacks called the fangs; it is syringed out only where the serpent's teeth have bitten through.

Or else, the very poison would have killed the serpent itself.

Similarly, unless the great discriminating faculties in man, --- the pure reasoning and the logical faculties  --- are well clothed in the sack of the heart, his own intellect would be his own destruction.

This is exactly what is also the cause for all ills of the world today.

At the expense of the heart the head has overgrown and we try to readjust ourselves in our domestic,
social, cultural and economic fields by plans worked out merely by the intellect.

We try to live on the intellect alone, without a heart, and therefore, with best of our efforts we are failing to find out an ideal pattern in which we can all live happily and grow to a greater culture, within an atmosphere of peace and understanding.

Here, Gaudapada points out that " Awareness or Consciousness " is in the heart-space, meaning that it is to be realised when we delve into an intellect " samosa-ed ( puff-ed ) in the heart.

These three locations of the three egos are detailed here only for the purposes of meditation; every new initiate would certainly demand for a definite spot to meditate upon.

Next : Mantram-3.

To be continued ...