Vinaya Texts

SR No.: 007684
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2523
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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BRIHADARANYAKA-UPANISHAD.
Yagñavalkya said: 'Agni.'
Sâkalya said: 'In what does that Agni abide.' Yagnavalkya said: 'In speech.'
Sâkalya said: 'And in what does speech abide?' Yagñavalkya said: 'In the heart.'
Sâkalya said: 'And in what does the heart abide?' 25. Yagnavalkya said: 'O Ahallika', when you think the heart could be anywhere else away from us, if it were away from us, the dogs might eat it, or the birds tear it.'
26. Sâkalya said: 'And in what dost thou (thy body) and the Self (thy heart) abide?'
Yâgñavalkya said: 'In the Prâna (breath).' Sâkalya said: 'In what does the Prâna abide ?' Yagnavalkya said: In the Apâna (downbreathing)2.'
Sâkalya said: 'In what does the Apâna abide?' Yagnavalkya said: 'In the Vyâna (back-breathing)3.' Sâkalya said: 'In what does the Vyâna abide ?' Yagñavalkya said: 'In the Udâna (the out-breathing).'
Sâkalya said: 'In what does the Udâna abide?' Yagnavalkya said: 'In the Samâna o. That Self
1 A term of reproach, it may be a ghost or preta, because ahani lîyate, it disappears by day.
2 Because the prâna would run away, if it were not held back by the apâna.
8 Because the apâna would run down, and the prâna up, if they were not held back by the vyâna.
Because all three, the prâna, apâna, and vyâna, would run away in all directions, if they were not fastened to the udâna.
The Samâna can hardly be meant here for one of the five prânas, generally mentioned before the udâna, but, as explained by Dvivedaganga, stands for the Sûtrâtman. This Sûtrâtman abides in the Antaryâmin, and this in the Brahman (Kûtastha), which is
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