Shloka 4
Adhyaya 42 — Dattatreya on the Yogic Import of Oṃ (Praṇava): Matras, Worlds, and Liberation
अकारश्च तथोकारो मकारश्चाक्षरत्रयम् ।
एता एव त्रयो मात्राḥ सत्त्वराजसतामसाḥ ॥
akāraś ca tathokāro makāraś cākṣaratrayam / etā eva trayo mātrāḥ sāttvarājasatāmasāḥ
‘அ’, ‘உ’, ‘ம்’—இவை மூன்று எழுத்துகள். இவையே மூன்று மாத்திரைகள்: சத்த்வம், ரஜஸ், தமஸ்.
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FAQs
Spiritual practice includes discernment of the psyche’s constituents (guṇas). By contemplating praṇava’s structure, the practitioner learns to recognize and refine the guṇic tendencies within experience.
A doctrinal/meditative teaching; not pancalakṣaṇa. It aligns Purāṇic yoga with Sāṅkhya categories (the three guṇas).
Mapping A-U-M to the guṇas makes mantra a diagnostic and transformative tool: sound becomes a key to rebalancing the subtle constitution, ultimately transcending guṇas through absorption in the source of sound.