Mandukya Upanishad -1-4,5

Khanda -1 Shloka -4,5 Lecture -5 This lecture series in Sanskrit deals with Madukya or Manduk Upanishad as per Acharya Madhva’s commentary. This is one of the shortest amongst principal Upanishads belongs to Atharvaveda. It explains Pranava (Omkar) Upasana of Brahman (Lord Vishnu) who is full of all attributes and all pervasive. It further explains four forms of Lord Vishnu namely Vaishavanar, Taijas, Prajna and Turiya. These four forms in turn regulates four states of human consciousness namely the wakeup state, dreaming state, deep sleep and sound resonance state respectively. Also these forms of Lord Vishnu are mapped to 4 syllables of Omkar viz. Au, m, a and Nada (Sound) for Upasana