Adhyaya 42 — Dattatreya on the Yogic Import of Oṃ (Praṇava): Matras, Worlds, and Liberation
सव्यञ्जनो मकारश्च स्वर्लोकः परिकल्प्यते ।
व्यक्ता तु प्रथमा मात्रा द्वितीयाव्यक्तसंज्ञिता ॥
savyañjano makāraśca svarlokaḥ parikalpyate /
vyaktā tu prathamā mātrā dvitīyāvyaktasaṃjñitā
‘म’कारः स्वव्यञ्जनसमेतः स्वर्गलोकत्वेन परिकल्प्यते। प्रथममात्रा ‘व्यक्ता’ इति, द्वितीया तु ‘अव्यक्ता’ इति निगद्यते।
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The verse links spiritual practice with metaphysical discernment: one learns to see gradations from manifest experience to subtler, unmanifest ground—supporting detachment and clarity.
Philosophical categorization within Purāṇic instruction; not a direct pancalakṣaṇa narrative unit.
M’s closure and resonance symbolize completion and withdrawal; pairing it with ‘vyakta/avyakta’ frames mantra as a map from articulated experience toward the unmanifest source.