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Thus the prânas.
After having taught that Ether and all the other elements are effects, and hence have originated, the Sûtras had show…
(The scriptural statement of the plural) is secondary, on account of impossibility; and since (the highest Self) is declared before that.
The plural form exhibited by the text must be taken (not in its literal, but) in a secondary figurative sense, since …
On account of speech having for its antecedent that.
For the following reason also the word 'prâna,' in the text quoted, can denote Brahman only. Speech, i.e. the names w…
(They are seven) on account of the going of the seven and of specification.
The question here arises whether those organs are seven only, or eleven— the doubt on this point being due to the con…
But the hands and so on also; (since they assist the soul) abiding (in the body). Hence (it is) not so.
The organs are not seven only, but eleven, since the hands and the rest also contribute towards the experience and fr…
And (they are) minute.
As the text 'these are all alike, all infinite' (Bri. Up. I, 5, 13), declares speech, mind, and breath to be infinite…
And the best.
By 'the best' we have to understand the chief vital air (mukhya prâna), which, in the colloquy of the prânas, is dete…
Neither air nor function, on account of its being stated separately.
Is this main vital breath nothing else but air, the second of the elements? Or is it a certain motion of the air? Or …
But like the eye and the rest, on account of being taught with them, and for other reasons.
Breath is not an element, but like sight and the rest, a special instrument of the soul. This appears from the fact t…
And there is no objection on account of its not having an activity (karana); for (Scripture) thus declares.
The karana of the Sûtra means kriyâ, action. The objection raised on the ground that the principal breath does not ex…
It is designated as having five functions like mind.
As desire, and so on, are not principles different from mind, although they are different functions and produce diffe…
And (it is) minute.
This prâna also is minute, since as before (i.e. as in the case of the organs) the text declares it to pass out of th…
But the rule (over the prânas) on the part of Fire and the rest, together with him to whom the prâna belong (i.e. the soul), is owing to the thinking of that (viz. the highest Self); on account of scriptural statement.
It has been shown that the prânas, together with the main prâna, originate from Brahman, and have a limited size. Tha…
And on account of the eternity of this.
As the quality, inhering in all things, of being ruled by the highest Self, is eternal and definitely fixed by being …
They, with the exception of the best, are organs, on account of being so designated.
Are all principles called prânas to be considered as 'organs' (indriyâni), or is the 'best,' i.e. the chief prâna, to…
On account of scriptural statement of difference, and on account of difference of characteristics.
Texts such as 'from him is born prâna, and the internal organ, and all organs' (Mu. Up. II, 1, 3) mention the vital b…
But the making of names and forms (belongs) to him who renders tripartite, on account of scriptural teaching.
The Sûtras have shown that the creation of the elements and organs in their collective aspect (samashti) and the acti…
Flesh is of earthy nature; in the case of the two others also according to the text.
The view that the description of tripartition, given in the passage 'each of these he made tripartite,' refers to a t…
But on account of their distinctive nature there is that designation, that designation.
Each element indeed is of a threefold nature, owing to the primary tripartition; but as in each mixed element one def…