Sunday, May 12, 2019

Nobhayataḥ-Prajñaṃ | "not consciousness of both"

Nobhayatah-Prajnam

Nobhayataḥ-Prajñaṃ (IAST)
Translation: "not consciousness of both"
From Mandukya Upanishad (Verse 7)

Mundaka and Mandukya Upanishads (Swami Sharvananda)
Sanskrit: नोभयातःप्रज्ञं
Transliteration: Nobhayataḥ-Prajñaṃ
Translation: "Nor conscious of the intermediary state"
Commentary: "i.e., the negation of the consciousness that can be conceived to exist between the dreaming and the awakened states."

The Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad (Swami Krishnananda)
Sanskrit: नोभयातःप्रज्ञं
Transliteration: Nobhayataḥ-Prajñaṃ
Commentary: "One may think that it is a consciousness simultaneously of both the states. No; It is something different from a simultaneity of consciousness. It is not external, not internal, not a simultaneity of both, either."


References:
  1. 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
  2. Krishnananda, Swami (1996). The Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad. Retrieved from https://www.swami-krishnananda.org/mand_0.html. p. 82.