उपनिषद् · Mahā 5.103
॥
देवनागरी
सैषा चियमलाकारा निर्विकल्पा निरास्पदा
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
saiṣā ciyamalākārā nirvikalpā nirāspadā
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
सा एषा चित् इयम् अला-आकाराsā eṣā cit iyam alā-ākārāit, this consciousness, without shape; it, the said awareness, devoid of outline
निर्विकल्पा निरास्पदाnirvikalpā nirāspadāfree of distinctions, without a footing; foreign to differentiations, without an abode
अनुवाद
“This very consciousness is without shape, free of distinctions, without a footing.”
संस्करण
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The half-verse that closes the description.
Three attributes, all with negation.
Alā-ākārā — “without shape”. The reading here is disputed: the copies give different spellings, and I render by the sense.
Nirvikalpā — “free of distinctions”, that is, not dissecting (see 2.34).
Nirāspadā — “without a footing, without a place”. The word āspada means “place, position, office”.
Note this last. It denies not presence but position: consciousness has no office in the world-order, no corner allotted to it.
All this has been said before; but, setting the full stop, the book repeats it.
From the next verse it passes to business of quite another kind — to how one should teach.