Mandukya Upanishad
Sanskrit
ॐ भद्रं कर्णेभिः शृणुयाम देवाः भद्रं पश्येमाक्षभिर्यजत्राः ।स्थिरैरङ्गैस्तुष्टुवाँसस्तनूभिर्व्यशेम देवहितं यदायुः ॥स्वस्ति न इन्द्रो वृद्धश्रवाः स्वस्ति नः पूषा विश्ववेदाः ।स्वस्ति नस्तार्क्ष्यो अरिष्टनेमिः स्वस्ति नो बृहस्पतिर्दधातु ॥ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥
ओमित्येतदक्षरमिदँसर्वं तस्योपव्याख्यानभूतं भवद् भविष्यदिति सर्वमोङ्कार एव।यच्चान्यत् त्रिकालातीतं तदप्योङ्कार एव ॥ १ ॥
सर्वं ह्येतद् ब्रह्मायमात्मा ब्रह्म सोऽयमात्मा चतुष्पात् ॥ २ ॥
जागरितस्थानो बहिःप्रज्ञः सप्ताङ्ग एकोनविंशतिमुखः स्थूलभुग्वैश्वानरः प्रथमः पादः ॥ ३ ॥
स्वप्नस्थानोऽन्तःप्रज्ञः सप्ताङ्ग एकोनविंशतिमुखः प्रविविक्तभुक्तैजसो द्वितीयः पादः ॥ ४ ॥
यत्र सुप्तो न कञ्चन कामं कामयते न कञ्चन स्वप्नं पश्यति तत् सुषुप्तम् ।सुषुप्तस्थान एकीभूतः प्रज्ञानघन एवानन्दमयो ह्यानन्दभुक् चेतोमुखः प्राज्ञस्तृतीयः पादः ॥ ५ ॥
एष सर्वेश्वर एष सर्वज्ञ एषोऽन्तर्याम्येष योनिः सर्वस्य प्रभवाप्ययौ हि भूतानाम् ॥ ६ ॥
नान्तःप्रज्ञं न बहिष्प्रज्ञं नोभयतःप्रज्ञं न प्रज्ञानघनं न प्रज्ञं नाप्रज्ञम् ।अदृष्टमव्यवहार्यमग्राह्यमलक्षणं अचिन्त्यमव्यपदेश्यमेकात्मप्रत्ययासारं प्रपञ्चोपशमं शान्तं शिवमद्वैतं चतुर्थं मन्यन्ते स आत्मा स विज्ञेयः ॥ ७ ॥
सोऽयमात्माध्यक्षरमोङ्करोऽधिमात्रं पादा मात्रा मात्राश्च पादा अकार उकारो मकार इति ॥ ८ ॥
जागरितस्थानो वैश्वानरोऽकारः प्रथमा मात्राऽऽप्तेरादिमत्त्वाद्वाऽऽप्नोति ह वै सर्वान् कामानादिश्च भवति य एवं वेद ॥ ९ ॥
स्वप्नस्थानस्तैजस उकारो द्वितीया मात्रोत्कर्षात् उभयत्वाद्वोत्कर्षति ह वै ज्ञानसन्ततिं समानश्च भवति नास्याऽब्रह्मवित्कुले भवति य एवं वेद ॥ १० ॥
सुषुप्तस्थानः प्राज्ञो मकारस्तृतीया मात्रा मितेरपीतेर्वा मिनोति ह वा इदं सर्वमपीतिश्च भवति य एवं वेद ॥ ११ ॥
अमात्रश्चतुर्थोऽव्यवहार्यः प्रपञ्चोपशमः शिवोऽद्वैत एवमोङ्कार आत्मैव संविशत्यात्मनाऽऽत्मानं य एवं वेद ॥ १२ ॥
॥ इति माण्डुक्योपनिषत् समाप्ता ॥
English
Om. Gods, may we hear what is good with our ears; worthy of worship, may we see what is good with our eyes.Praising you with steadfast limbs and bodies, may we live out the span the gods have given us.May Indra, whose fame has grown great, grant us well-being; may Pushan, who knows all, grant us well-being.May Tarkshya, whose wheel-rim is unharmed, grant us well-being; may Brihaspati grant us well-being.Om. Peace, peace, peace.
1 Om: this syllable is all that is. Here is its unfolding: past, present, and future—all is Om alone.Whatever else lies beyond the threefold time is also Om alone.
2 All this is Brahman. This Self is Brahman. This Self has four quarters.
3 The first quarter is Vaishvanara: his realm is waking, his awareness turned outward. He has seven limbs and nineteen mouths; he feeds on the gross.
4 The second quarter is Taijasa: his realm is dreaming, his awareness turned inward. He has seven limbs and nineteen mouths; he feeds on the subtle.
5 Deep sleep is where a sleeper desires no desire and sees no dream.The third quarter is Prajna: his realm is deep sleep, where all has become one, a mass of awareness alone. He is filled with bliss and feeds on bliss; he is the gateway to consciousness.
6 This is the lord of all, the knower of all, the ruler within, the womb of all: from this beings arise, and into this they pass away.
7 They regard the fourth as neither inwardly aware nor outwardly aware, nor aware in both ways; neither a mass of awareness nor aware nor unaware.It is unseen, beyond dealings, ungraspable, without distinguishing mark, unthinkable, beyond description. Its essence is the recognition of the one Self; in it the unfolding world falls still. It is peaceful, auspicious, without a second. This is the Self. This is what must be known.
8 This very Self, considered as a syllable, is Om; considered as measures of sound, its quarters are the measures and the measures are its quarters: A, U, M.
9 Vaishvanara, whose realm is waking, is A, the first measure, through attainment or through being first. Whoever knows this attains all desires and becomes the first.
10 Taijasa, whose realm is dreaming, is U, the second measure, through elevation or through belonging to both. Whoever knows this raises the succession of knowledge and becomes equal; no one in his family is ignorant of Brahman.
11 Prajna, whose realm is deep sleep, is M, the third measure, through measuring or through absorption. Whoever knows this measures all that is and becomes its place of absorption.
12 The fourth is without measure, beyond dealings, the stilling of the unfolding world, auspicious, without a second. Thus Om is the Self alone. Whoever knows this enters the Self through the Self.
Here ends the Mandukya Upanishad.