Na Prajnam
Na Prajñaṃ (IAST)Translation: "not consciousness"
From Mandukya Upanishad (Verse 7)
Mundaka and Mandukya Upanishads (Swami Sharvananda)
Sanskrit: न प्रज्ञं
Transliteration: Na Prajñaṃ
Translation: "Nor consciousness"
Commentary: "i.e., the negation of the totality of the relative consciousness."
The Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad (Swami Krishnananda)
Sanskrit: न प्रज्ञं
Transliteration: Na Prajñaṃ
Commentary: "It is not featureless Consciousness without any awareness, Na Prajñaṃ. You may think that it is awareness without an object before it. It is not even that, because the object is contained in that Consciousness. It is not Consciousness bereft of objects. It is Consciousness into which the objects have been absorbed. So, it cannot be regarded as a featureless transparency of an ethereal consciousness."
References:
- Sharvananda, Swami (1920). Mundaka and Mandukya Upanishads: With Sanskrit Text; Paraphrase with Word-For-Word Literal Translation, English, Rendering and Comments. Mylapore, Madras: Sri Ramakrishna Math
- Krishnananda, Swami (1996). The Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad. Retrieved from https://www.swami-krishnananda.org/mand_0.html. p. 82.
