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the flow of knowledge and becomes equalised; in hisfamily there will be born no one ignorant of Brahman.suṣupta-sthānaḥ prājño makāras tṛtīya mātrāmiter apīter vā minoti ha vā idaṁsarvam apītiś ca bhavati ya evaṁ veda.11. Prājña, whose field is deep sleep, is the third sound, M,because this is the measure, and that into which allenters. He who knows thus, measures all and becomesall.amātraś caturtho’vyavahāryaḥ prapañcopaśamaḥsivo’dvaitaevam auṁkāra ātmaiva, saṁviśaty ātmanā’tmānaṁ yaevaṁveda ya evaṁ veda.12. The fourth is soundless: unutterable, a quieting down ofall relative manifestations, blissful, peaceful, non-dual.Thus, OM is the Ātman, verily. He who knows thus,merges his self in the Self – yea, he who knows thus.Om śantih; śantih; śantihOm Peace! Peace! Peace!14
THE PRANAVA OR OMKARAThe Vedas, in their form as the Samhitās, constitute anintroduction to the subject dealt with in the Vedānta or theUpanishads. The Upanishads are secret teachingscontaining wisdom beyond the realm of the earth andrevealing proclamations of the great sages of yore on thenature of Reality. Among the Upanishads, the Māndūkyamay be regarded as the most important, and it is aptly said– māndūkyam ekam eva alam mumukshūnām vimuktaye -for the liberation of the mumukṣhū or seeker the Māndūkyaalone is enough; and if you are able to understand the truemeaning of this single Upanishad, there may not be anecessity to study any other Upanishad, not even theChhāndogya or the Brihadāranyaka, because the theme ofthe Māndūkya Upanishad is a direct approach to the depthsof human nature. It does not give analogies, tell stories ormake comparisons. It states bare facts in respect of man ingeneral and Reality in its essential character. A verycomprehensive Upanishad is this, containing only twelvestatements called mantras, in which the whole wisdom orknowledge of the Upanishads is packed into a nutshell. TheUpanishad commences with a prayer. All Upanishads startwith a prayer – prayer to the guardians of the quarters, thedeities or the manifestations of God, who rule the whole ofcreation, that we be blessed with health and understandingin order to go into the secrets of the Upanishads, tomeditate upon them and to realise the Truth proclaimed inthem.The Māndūkya Upanishad is attributed to the revelationof a great sage called Māndūka. That which pertains to
Page 1 and 2: THE MĀNDŪKYAUPANISHADSWAMI KRISHN
Page 3 and 4: CONTENTSPublishers’ Preface ...
Page 5 and 6: INTRODUCTIONThe theme of the Manduk
Page 7 and 8: ceases to agitate the mind any more
Page 9 and 10: INVOCATION AND VERSESOm! Bhadram ka
Page 11 and 12: svapna-sthāno’ntaḥ-prajñaḥ
Page 13: 8. This identical Ātman, or Self,
Page 17 and 18: and rūpa, name as well as form. It
Page 19 and 20: Now, we come from what we call Īsv
Page 21 and 22: and to achieve this by a direct met
Page 23 and 24: structure and the glory of Om. With
Page 25 and 26: desire persisting, it would only po
Page 27 and 28: magnificence of Om, but how are we
Page 29 and 30: experience a thrill, as if an elect
Page 31 and 32: THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE ABSOLUTEThe
Page 33 and 34: vai tat. The reconciliation of “t
Page 35 and 36: yaccānyat trikālātitam tadapyomk
Page 37 and 38: The ultimate longing of all aspirin
Page 39 and 40: to the realisation of asti-bhāti-p
Page 41 and 42: structural difference is an effect
Page 43 and 44: self is the false self, not the rea
Page 45 and 46: cow, with four feet? The four feet
Page 47 and 48: Consciousness. A study of conscious
Page 49 and 50: THE UNIVERSAL VAIŚVĀNARAThis Ātm
Page 51 and 52: these dealings are with ‘other’
Page 53 and 54: the Virāt, or the Universal Person
Page 55 and 56: logical discrimination. This is the
Page 57 and 58: it were. This is the function of th
Page 59 and 60: world’s existence, not merely a p
Page 61 and 62: subtle body is not visible to us, a
Page 63 and 64: Now, we consider the meaning of bah
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ecause the consciousness of the jī
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cannot have power over things. We a
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we have about the dream world in re
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is a complicated case for investiga
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never pass such a judgment. You are
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are in a particular state, that sta
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But, if you feel that by waking up
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The dream consciousness which is ta
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ecause freewill is only as much rea
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Dreams, therefore, are due to repre
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egarded as pravivikta, sūkṣhma,
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The third foot of the Ātman the th
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ānanda, swallow ānanda, consume
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Causal Condition, known as Īsvara.
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ocean is being described here, the
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of an effect, namely, the plant, an
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Īsvara’s Being. For Him, it is a
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or Destroyer, more than a cause of
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which you have seen, heard, etc.? B
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where existence becomes identical w
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simply are. You have become That, a
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peaceful. But the peace of the Ātm
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seen the Ātman? Can you get the Ā
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THE ĀTMAN AS THE PRANAVAThe Ātman
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the Ātman in the waking state is c
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symbolic, as the comparison of Brah
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Therefore, your generation, your po
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the deep sleep state, even as all o
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elationless. Samviśatyatmanātmān
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