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atha hainaṃ raikvaḥ papraccha bhagavanyo'yaṃ vijñānaghana utkrāmansa kena kataradvāva sthānaṃ dahatīti tasmai sa hovāca yo'yaṃ vijñānaghana utkrāmanprāṇaṃ dahatyapānaṃ vyānamudānaṃ samānaṃ vairambhaṃ mukhya-mantaryāmaṃ prabhañjanaṃ kumāraṃ śyenaṃ śvetaṃ kṛṣṇaṃ nāgaṃ dahati pṛthivyāpastejo-yvākāśaṃ dahati jāgaritaṃ svapnaṃ suṣuptaṃ turīyaṃ ca mahatāṃ ca lokaṃ paraṃ ca lokaṃ dahati lokālokaṃ dahati dharmādharmaṃ dahatyabhāskara-mamaryādaṃ nirālokamataḥ paraṃ dahati mahāntaṃ dahatyavyaktaṃ dahatyakṣaraṃ dahati mṛtyuṃ dahati mṛtyurvai pare deva ekībhavatīti parastānna sannāsanna sadasadityetannirvāṇānuśāsanamiti vedānuśāsanamiti vedānuśāsanam ||

Again Raikva asked: "O Lord, when this Vijñāna-ghana goes out (of the body or the universe), what does it burn and how?" To which He replied: "When it goes away, it burns prāṇa, apāna, vyāna, uḍāna, samāna, vairambha, mukhya, anṭaryāma, prabhañjana, kumāra, śyena, kṛshṇa, śveṭa, and nāga. Then it burns pṛṭhivī, āpas, ṭejas, vāyu, and ākāś; then it burns the waking, the dreaming, the dreamless sleeping and the fourth states as well as the maharlokas and worlds higher; then it burns the lokāloka (the highest world forming a limit to the other worlds). Then it burns ḍharma and aḍharma. Then it burns that which is beyond, is sunless, limitless, and worldless. Then it burns mahaṭ; it burns avyakṭa; it burns akshara; it burns mṛṭyu; and mṛṭyu becomes one with the great Lord. Beyond Him, there is neither Saṭ nor asaṭ, nor Saṭ-asaṭ. Thus is the exposition of Nirvāṇa, and thus is the exposition of the Veḍas; yea, thus is the exposition of the Veḍas."

Subala-Upanishaḍ of Śukla-Yajurveḍa

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