Mndkyopanishad.!

I. Aum is the word, all this is an explanation of its (meaning and power) past, present and future.
All, indeed, is Aum; even all that is beyond the triple conception of time.!

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II. For all this is Brahman, this tman is Brahman, and this tman has four quarters (pdas).!
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III. The first quarter (foot) is Vaivnara whose sphere is the state of waking, who is cognisant of
the objective, who has seven members, and nineteen mouths, and whose fruition consists of the
gross.!

IV. The second quarter is the Taijasa whose region is dream, who is cognisant only of the
subjective, who has seven members and nineteen mouths, and whose fruition consists of the
subtile.!

V. That is the state of deep sleep wherein the sleeper does not imagine anything, and does not
see any dream. The third quarter therefore is the Prjna, whose sphere is (this) deep sleep, in
whom all melts into one, who is a mass all sentiency, who is all bliss, whose fruition is of bliss,
and who is the way of sentiency (to the objective).!

VI. This is the Lord of all, this is the all-knowing, this is the antarymin, this is the source of all
the origin and final resort of all beings.!

VII. The Fourth is that which is not conscious of the subjective, nor that which is conscious of
the objective, nor that which is conscious of both, nor that which is simple consciousness, nor
that which is a mass all sentiency, nor that which is all darkness. It is unseen, transcendent,
unapprehensible, uninferable, unthinkable, indescribable, the sole essence of the
consciousness of self, the negative of all illusion, the ever peaceful, all bliss, the One Unit;this
indeed is tman, it should be known.!

VIII. This is that tman even with regard to the letters (of the word aum); it is aumkra with its
parts. The quarters are the parts, and the parts the quarters, the former being a, u, m.!

IX. The first part A is vaivnara whose sphere is the condition of waking, on account of allpervasiveness, or on account of being the first. He who knows this has all his desires fulfilled,
and is the first (of all).!

X. The second part U is Taijasa whose sphere is the condition of dream, on account of
superiority, or on account of being in the middle. He who knows this has his knowledge refined
to the highest point of superiority, he finds no cause of difference with anyone, nor is any one
ignorant of Brahman born in his family.!

XI. The third part M is Prjna whose sphere is the condition of sleep, on account of its being the
measure, or on account of its being that wherein everything loses its identity. He who knows this
is able to measure all and to comprehend all within himself.!

XII. That which has no parts is the Fourth, indescribable, free from the illusion of experience, all
bliss, one without a second. This is aumkra. He who realizes tman in himself, loses self in the
Self.