How Old is Silence? Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad
MĀṆḌŪKYA UPANIṢAD माण्डूक्योपनिषद्
— assigned to Atharvaveda, one of the shortest Upaniṣadic texts, comprising of 12 verses on the sacred syllable ॐ “Oṃ” or “Auṃ”.
The Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad describes how this sound relates to brahman and ātman.
It explains that the whole world in past, present, future and beyond is contained in this one syllable.
Each phoneme found within “Auṃ” — “a”, “u” and “ṃ” represents a different state of consciousness (waking for “a”, dreaming for “u” and sleep for “ṃ”).
Each is also associated with a “quarter” (the Universal for “a”, the Brilliant for “u” and the Knowledgeable for “ṃ”).
There is a fourth quarter, which is not connected to a phoneme within the syllable “Auṃ”; it is transcendental and represents the cessation of the visible world, neither inside or outside, neither seen nor unseen.
It is “śāntaṃ śivamadvaitaṃ caturthaṃ manyante sa ātmā sa vijñeyaḥ” meaning “the one which is peaceful, auspicious, unitary, the fourth (quarter), that one is the Self, the object of self knowledge.”
The Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad states that the self (ātman) 𝘪𝘴 Oṃ (oṃkāra), and anyone who knows this enters into the self (ātman) by their own self (ātman).
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