| sacred syllable | a | u | m | OM | ||
| language | articulate | mental | witnessing | "beyond" | ||
| states of consciousness | waking | dreaming | deep sleep | "fourth" | ||
| steps toward self-knowledge | hearing | thinking | meditating | seeing | ||
| grammatical persons | third: it | second: you | first: I | nonrelational | ||
| sacred utterances | bhur | bhuvah | svah | OM | ||
| regions | earth | atmosphere | heaven | transcendent | ||
| strands of matter | black (tamas) | red (rajas) | white (sattva) | unmanifest | ||
| stages of life | student | householder | retiree | renunciant | ||
| Vedic priests | invoker | manipulator | cantor | [overseer] | ||
| Vedas | Rig | Yajur | Sama | [Atharva] | ||
| occupational classes | trades/business | military/government | scholarship/priesthood | [labor] |
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