{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe15/sbe15108.htm","path":"hin/sbe15/sbe15108.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe15/sbe15108.htm","text":"The Upanishads, Part 2 (SBE15), by Max M\u00fcller, [1879]\n1. Then Kausalya \u00c2sval\u00e2yana asked: 'Sir, whence is that Pr\u00e2na (spirit) born? How does it come into this body? And how does it abide, after it has divided itself? How does it go out? How does it support what is without 4, and how what is within?'\n2. He replied: 'You ask questions more difficult, but you are very fond of Brahman, therefore I shall tell it you.\n3. This Pr\u00e2na (spirit) is born of the Self. Like the shadow thrown on a man, this (the pr\u00e2na) is\nspread out over it (the Brahman) 1. By the work of the mind 2 does it come into this body.\n4. As a king commands officials, saying to them: Rule these villages or those, so does that Pr\u00e2na (spirit) dispose the other pr\u00e2nas, each for their separate work.\n5. The Ap\u00e2na (the down-breathing) in the organs of excretion and generation; the Pr\u00e2na himself dwells in eye and ear, passing through mouth and nose. In the middle is the Sam\u00e2na 3 (the on-breathing); it carries what has been sacrificed as food equally (over the body), and the seven lights proceed from it.\n6. The Self 4 is in the heart. There are the 101 arteries, and in each of them there are a hundred (smaller veins), and for each of these branches there are 72,000 5. In these the Vy\u00e2na (the back-breathing) moves.\n7. Through one of them, the Ud\u00e2na (the out-breathing) leads (us) upwards to the good world by good work, to the bad world by bad work, to the world of men by both.\n8. The sun rises as the external Pr\u00e2na, for it assists the Pr\u00e2na in the eye 1. The deity that exists in the earth, is there in support of man's Ap\u00e2na (down-breathing). The ether between (sun and earth) is the Sam\u00e2na (on-breathing), the air is Vy\u00e2na (back-breathing).\n9. Light is the Ud\u00e2na (out-breathing), and therefore he whose light has gone out comes to a new birth with his senses absorbed in the mind.\n10. Whatever his thought (at the time of death) with that he goes back to Pr\u00e2na, and the Pr\u00e2na, united with light 2, together with the self (the g\u00eev\u00e2tm\u00e2) leads on to the world, as deserved.\n11. He who, thus knowing, knows Pr\u00e2na, his offspring does not perish, and he becomes immortal. Thus says the Sloka:\n12. He who has known the origin 3, the entry, the place, the fivefold distribution, and the internal state 4 of the Pr\u00e2na, obtains immortality, yes, obtains immortality.'\n276:4 All creatures and the gods.\n277:1 Over Brahman, i.e. the Self, the parama purusha, the akshara, the satya. The pr\u00e2na being called a shadow, is thereby implied to be unreal (anrita). Sa\u1e45kara.\n277:2 Manokrita is explained as an \u00e2rsha sandhi. It means the good or evil deeds, which are the work of the mind.\n277:3 I keep to the usual translation of Sam\u00e2na by on-breathing, though it is here explained in a different sense. Sam\u00e2na is here supposed to be between pr\u00e2na and ap\u00e2na, and to distribute the food equally, samam, over the body. The seven lights are explained as the two eyes, the two ears, the two nostrils, and the mouth.\n277:4 Here the Li\u1e45g\u00e2tm\u00e2 or G\u00eev\u00e2tm\u00e2.\n277:5 A hundred times 101 would give us 10,100, and each multiplied by 72,000 would give us a sum total of 727,200,000 veins, or, if we add the principal veins, 727,210,201. \u00c2nandagiri makes the sum total, 72 kotis, 72 lakshas, six thousands, two hundred and one, where the six of the thousands seems to be a mistake for dasasahasram. In the Brihad\u00e2r. Upanishad II, 1, 19, we read of 72,000 arteries, likewise in Y\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya III, 108. See also Brih. Up. IV, p. 2783, 20; Kh\u00e2nd. Up. VI, 5, 3, comm.; Kaush. Up. IV, 20; Katha Up. VI, 16.\n278:1 Without the sun the eye could not see.\n278:2 With Ud\u00e2na, the out-breathing\n278:3 This refers to the questions asked in verse 1, and answered in the verses which follow.\n278:4 The adhy\u00e2tma, as opposed to the v\u00e2hya, mentioned in verse 1. Ayati instead of \u00e2y\u00e2ti is explained by kh\u00e2ndasam hrasvatvam.","title":"The Upanishads, Part 2 (SBE15): Pras\u00f1a Upanishad: Third Question","type":"page"}