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Mandukya Upanishad 9: Verse 9

जागरितस्थानो वैश्वानरोऽकारः प्रथमा मात्रा आप्तेरादिमत्त्वाद्वा आप्नोति ह वै सर्वान्कामानादिश्च भवति य एवं वेद ॥९॥

जागरित-स्थानः । वैश्वानरः । अकारः । प्रथमा । मात्रा । आप्तेः । आदिमत्त्वात् । वा । आप्नोति । ह । वै । सर्वान् । कामान् । आदिः । च । भवति । यः । एवम् । वेद ॥९॥

Sanskrit recitationMandukya Upanishad 9

jāgaritasthāno vaiśvānaro ’kāraḥ prathamā mātrā āpteḥ ādimattvād vā āpnoti ha vai sarvān kāmān ādiś ca bhavati ya evaṃ veda ||9||

జాగ్రత్-స్థానముగల వైశ్వానరుడు ‘అ’—మొదటి మాత్ర; ‘ఆప్తి’ (వ్యాప్తి/ప్రాప్తి) కారణంగా లేదా ‘ఆదిమత్వం’ (ఆరంభత్వం) కారణంగా. ఇలా తెలిసినవాడు నిజంగా సమస్త కామ్యాలను పొందుతాడు, ఆదిగా (అగ్రుడిగా) అవుతాడు॥

The waking-state (aspect), Vaiśvānara, is the phoneme A, the first measure—because of pervasion/attainment (āpti) or because of being the beginning (ādimattva). He indeed attains all desires and becomes the first who knows thus.

Correlation of waking (Vaiśvānara) with ‘A’ (akāra) in Oṃ; upāsanā leading to sādhana and eventual inquiry into TurīyaMahavakya: Indirect pedagogical support to “ayam ātmā brahma”: the empirical self in waking is traced back through Oṃ-analysis toward the non-dual Self.AtharvaAtharva-veda (Ātharvaṇa tradition; commonly transmitted with Śaunaka affiliation) ShakhaChandas: Prose

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