उपनिषद् · Varāha 4.11
॥
देवनागरी
शुभेच्छादित्रयं भूमिभेदाभेदयुतं स्मृतम् । यथावद्वेद बुद्ध्येदं जगज्जाग्रति दृश्यते
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
śubhecchāditrayaṃ bhūmibhedābhedayutaṃ smṛtam | yathāvadveda buddhyedaṃ jagajjāgrati dṛśyate
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
शुभ-इच्छा-आदि-त्रयंśubha-icchā-ādi-trayaṃthe triad from good desire onward
भूमि-भेद-अभेद-युतं स्मृतम्bhūmi-bheda-abheda-yutaṃ smṛtamis remembered as joined with difference and non-difference of the stages
यथावत् वेद बुद्ध्या इदंyathāvat veda buddhyā idaṃwho properly knows this with his intellect
जगत् जाग्रति दृश्यतेjagat jāgrati dṛśyatefor him the world is seen [as] in waking
अनुवाद
"The triad from good desire onward is remembered as joined with difference and non-difference of the stages; who properly knows this with his intellect, for him the world is seen [as] in waking."
संस्करण
4725ddf096a3 · प्रकाशित 12 अग॰ 2026, 5:00:00 am UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The first three stages are correlated with waking, and the following ones will be correlated with dream and with the fourth. This construction joins two schemes: the seven stages and the four states; and of the four states, discussed when reading the Mandukya. The sense of the joining is this: at the first three stages, the world still appears real — the person lives in it like anyone, and only his intentions have changed.
This description is, in my view, correct, and is held in Vaishnava practice too, though expressed differently. It says: at first a person both believes and does not believe at once; he goes to the temple and, right there, counts his money, and both occupations are equally real to him. Let us add what deserves noting in the phrase bheda-abheda-yuta, "joined with difference and non-difference."
It is hardly necessary to say this combination is the very name of Vaishnava teaching, discussed when reading the Pranagnihotra (2.9): achintya-bheda-abheda, "inconceivable difference-and-non-difference." Here it is applied to the stages: they are both different and not different, for they pass into one another imperceptibly. And this, incidentally, is a good example that such a combination is not a contradiction: anyone who has observed growth knows the stages of growth are both distinguishable and inseparable from one another.