प्राणः अपानः व्यानः इति अष्टौ अक्षराणि अष्टाक्षरम् ह वा एकम् गायत्र्यै पदम् एतद् उ हैवास्या एतत् सः यावद् इदम् प्राणि तावद् ह जयति यः अस्या एतद् एवम् पदम् वेद अथास्या एतद् एव तुरीयं दर्शतं पदम् परोरजाः यः एषः तपति यद् वै चतुर्थम् तत् तुरीयम् दर्शतं पदम् इति ददृश इव हि एषः परोरजाः इति सर्वम् उ हि एव एषः रजः उपरि उपरि तपति एवम् ह एव श्रिया यशसा तपति यः अस्या एतद् एवम् पदम् वेद
prāṇaḥ apānaḥ vyānaḥ iti aṣṭau akṣarāṇi aṣṭākṣaram ha vā ekam gāyatryai padam etad u haivāsyā etat saḥ yāvad idam prāṇi tāvad ha jayati yaḥ asyā etad evam padam veda athāsyā etad eva turīyaṃ darśataṃ padam parorajāḥ yaḥ eṣaḥ tapati yad vai caturtham tat turīyam darśataṃ padam iti dadṛśa iva hi eṣaḥ parorajāḥ iti sarvam u hi eva eṣaḥ rajaḥ upari upari tapati evam ha eva śriyā yaśasā tapati yaḥ asyā etad evam padam veda
"Prāṇa, apāna, vyāna" — eight syllables; and one foot of the gāyatrī has eight syllables: this is that foot of hers. He who knows this foot of hers conquers as much as there is that breathes. And her fourth, visible (darśata) foot is above the dust (parorajas): the one who burns [the sun]. The fourth is called turīya; "visible foot", because he is as it were visible; "above the dust", because he burns above all dust. So does he burn with beauty and glory who knows this foot of hers.
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The third foot is the three breaths: prāṇo 'pāno vyānaḥ — eight syllables: after the worlds and the Vedas, life itself. But in the three-footed gāyatrī a fourth foot opens: turīya, "the fourth": darśataṁ padam — "the visible foot", parorajas — "above the dust": the sun, blazing above all dust-rajas.
The word turīya has sounded — the very word by which the Māṇḍūkya will name the fourth state beyond waking, dream and depth. Here is its first home: prayer has a fourth foot above its three, and the world has a Burning One above the worlds. He is "as it were visible" (iva!) — the sun is visible, the Shining One in it not quite; and he is "above the dust" — beyond rajas, beyond the murk of the moving. The gāyatrī has three feet for the lips and four for the knower: reciting three, he stands before the Fourth.