ENGLISH VERSION
1. Here is an unfolding1 of the Immutable who is all and whose name is OM.2 Whatsoever has been, is now and is yet to be is OM. Even that which is other than all this and beyond time is no other than OM.
2. All this is Brahman3 the Supreme, and the Supreme is Atman4 the true Self of all and this Self is fourfold.5
3. Seven-limbed, nineteen-mouthed, conscious of the external, the enjoyer of the gross whose field is the waking life — the first is Vaishwanara the Male Universal.6
4. Seven-limbed, nineteen-mouthed, conscious of the internal, the reveller in the subtle whose native dwelling is in Dream — the second is Taijasa the Ever-radiant.7
5. Poised on the plane of deep sleep where the sleeper craves not for pleasure nor sees any dream, unified in substance and concentrated8 in knowledge, the Being of Delight9 who tastes the rapture transcendent and whose mouth is consciousness — the third is Prajna the Master of Wisdom.10
6. This is the Lord of all, their omniscient indweller and controller, this is the womb of all — the cause of their creation and their destruction.
7. Neither internal nor external nor even midway between the two; neither the concentrated Knowledge nor world-consciousness nor yet unconsciousness; invisible and unrelated, unseizable and featureless; beyond all thought and speech; the sheer Self luminous in very essence of singlehood and devoid of deceptive mutations; the Peaceful, the Beatific, the One who is non-dual11 — this is called the fourth, it is He who is the Self,12 it is He13 who is to be realised.
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8. This Self is the Immutable whose name is OM: his forms are its syllables — the forms of the one are indeed the syllables of the other — A,U,M.14
9. The Male Universal, Vaishwanara, whose field is the waking life, is the first syllable A, the syllable which pervades all and is primal. He who realises this finds all his longings fulfilled and stands out foremost.
10. The Ever-radiant, Taijasa, who dwells in Dream is the second syllable U, the syllable which augments all and is in-between. He who realises this increases his command of knowledge and becomes equal to everything nor ever is born in his house anyone ignorant of Brahman.
11. The Master of Wisdom, Prajna, poised on the plane of deep sleep, is the third syllable M, the syllable which plumbs all and is final. He who realises this becomes the all-measurer and the passage into the ultimate.
12. OM is the full and unsyllabified15 fourth — the unconditioned,16 the immutability never affected,17 the Beatific One who is without duality. He who realises18 this, he by whom this is realised, enters through his own supreme Self the supreme Self of all.
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