Upaniṣads · Rāma-tāpanī Uttara 2.5
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अत्रैते श्लोका भवन्ति । अकारक्षरसंभूतः सौमित्रिर्विश्वभावनः । उकाराक्षरसंभूतः शत्रुघ्नस्तैजसात्मकः
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atraite ślokā bhavanti | akārakṣarasaṃbhūtaḥ saumitrirviśvabhāvanaḥ | ukārākṣarasaṃbhūtaḥ śatrughnastaijasātmakaḥ
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अत्र एते श्लोकाः भवन्तिatra ete ślokāḥ bhavantihere there are these verses; on this there are ślokas
अकाराक्षरसंभूतःakārākṣarasaṃbhūtaḥarisen from the letter “a”; born of the letter “a”
सौमित्रिः विश्वभावनःsaumitriḥ viśvabhāvanaḥthe son of Sumitrā, maker of the universe; Lakṣmaṇa, builder of the world
उकाराक्षरसंभूतःukārākṣarasaṃbhūtaḥarisen from the letter “u”; born of the letter “u”
शत्रुघ्नः तैजसात्मकःśatrughnaḥ taijasātmakaḥŚatrughna, whose essence is taijasa; Śatrughna, whose nature is the luminous
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Here there are these verses: “Arisen from the letter ‘a’ — the son of Sumitrā, maker of the universe; arisen from the letter ‘u’ — Śatrughna, whose essence is taijasa…”
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Here begins what exists nowhere else in the Upaniṣads: the brothers of Rāma are identified with the parts of the syllable Oṁ.
Lakṣmaṇa is “a”, and named viśva-bhāvana, “maker of the universe”; Śatrughna is “u”, and named taijasātmaka, “whose essence is the luminous”.
To understand, one must remember the Māṇḍūkya, which this chapter will cite verbatim a few paragraphs on. There it is said: the Ātman is four-footed. The first foot is vaiśvānara, waking, enjoying the gross; the second — taijasa, dreaming; the third — prājña, sleeping without dreams; the fourth — turīya, neither the one nor the other.
And now these four feet are dealt out to the four brothers.
Lakṣmaṇa — waking and the gross world; Śatrughna — dream and light; Bharata, as the next verse will say, — deep sleep and knowledge; and Rāma — the fourth.
This device may seem forced, and it must be said honestly: it is late and belongs to this book alone. But the thought in it is deep.
The brothers are inseparable from Rāma — in the tradition too they do not leave His side; and now it is said that they are His own states. All that we know as waking, dream and oblivion is He in different measures; and that which is beyond all three is also He.
The next three paragraphs will finish: Bharata, Rāma and Sītā.