Mandukya Upanishad 9 — Verse 9

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

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

Padapatha (Word Split)

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

IAST Transliteration

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

Translation

ภาวะแห่งความตื่น (ชาคริตสถานะ) คือไวศวานระ เป็นเสียง อะ (A) มาตราแรก—เพราะความแผ่ซ่าน/การบรรลุ (อาปติ) หรือเพราะเป็นจุดเริ่มต้น (อาทิมัตตวะ). ผู้ใดรู้ดังนี้ ย่อมบรรลุความปรารถนาทั้งปวง และเป็นผู้แรกเริ่ม.

Academic Translation

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.

Verse Context

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