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avyaktam

  • unmanifest before birth
  • unmanifest
  • formless
  • in that which is called the unmanifest

Also appears as avyakta, avyakta-ādīni, avyakta-sanjñake, avyakta-mūrtinā

In 8 verses

Chapter 1 6 of 18 chapters Chapter 18
  1. 2.28

    अव्यक्तादीनि भूतानि व्यक्तमध्यानि भारत

    avyakta-ādīni — unmanifest before birth

    Beings are unmanifest before they appear, manifest in between, and unmanifest again when they go. Why grieve over this?

  2. 7.24

    अव्यक्तं व्यक्ितमापन्नं मन्यन्ते मामबुद्धयः

    avyaktam — formless

    The unthinking suppose that I, the unmanifest, have taken on a form — not knowing my higher nature, which does not change.

  3. 8.18

    अव्यक्ताद्व्यक्तयः सर्वाः प्रभवन्त्यहरागमे

    avyaktāt — from the unmanifested

    At the coming of that day all things manifest emerge from the unmanifest; at the fall of night they dissolve into it again.

  4. 9.4

    मया ततमिदं सर्वं जगदव्यक्तमूर्तिना

    avyakta-mūrtinā — the unmanifested form

    By me, in my unmanifest form, all this world is pervaded. All beings rest in me; I do not rest in them.

  5. 12.1

    एवं सततयुक्ता ये भक्तास्त्वां पर्युपासते

    avyaktam — the formless Brahman

    Those devoted who worship you, steadfast and constant, and those who worship the imperishable and unmanifest — which of them know better?

  6. 12.3

    ये त्वक्षरमनिर्देश्यमव्यक्तं पर्युपासते

    avyaktam — the unmanifest

    But those who worship the imperishable, the undefinable, the unmanifest, the all-pervading, the unthinkable, the unmoving, the fixed, the everlasting —

  7. 12.5

    क्लेशोऽधिकतरस्तेषामव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम्

    avyakta — to the unmanifest

    The trouble is greater for those whose minds are set on the unmanifest, for the unmanifest is hard to reach.

  8. 13.6

    महाभूतान्यहङ्कारो बुद्धिरव्यक्तमेव च

    avyaktam — the unmanifested primordial matter

    The great elements, the sense of self, the understanding, the unmanifest, the ten senses and the one, and the five fields of the senses;