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Then Kausalya Âsvalâyana asked: "Sir, whence is that Prâna (spirit) born? How does it come into this body? And how do…
He replied: "You ask questions more difficult, but you are very fond of Brahman, therefore I shall tell it you.
This Prâna (spirit) is born of the Self. Like the shadow thrown on a man, this (the prâna) is spread out over it (the…
As a king commands officials, saying to them: Rule these villages or those, so does that Prâna (spirit) dispose the o…
The Apâna (the down-breathing) in the organs of excretion and generation; the Prâna himself dwells in eye and ear, pa…
The Self is in the heart. There are the 101 arteries, and in each of them there are a hundred (smaller veins), and fo…
Through one of them, the Udâna (the out-breathing) leads (us) upwards to the good world by good work, to the bad worl…
The sun rises as the external Prâna, for it assists the Prâna in the eye. The deity that exists in the earth, is ther…
Light is the Udâna (out-breathing), and therefore he whose light has gone out comes to a new birth with his senses ab…
Whatever his thought (at the time of death) with that he goes back to Prâna, and the Prâna, united with light, togeth…
He who, thus knowing, knows Prâna, his offspring does not perish, and he becomes immortal. Thus says the Sloka:
He who has known the origin, the entry, the place, the fivefold distribution, and the internal state of the Prâna, ob…