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
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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 —
- 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.
- 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;