Upaniṣads · Praśna 3
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Praśna 3.1
अथ हैनं कौशल्यष्चाश्वलायनः पप्रच्छ ।
भगवन् कुत
एष प्राणो जायते कथमायात्यस्मिञ्शरीर आत्मानं वा
प्रविभज्य कथं प्रतिष्ठते केनोत्क्रमते कथं बह्यमभिधते
कथमध्यात्ममिति ॥ ३.१ ॥
Then Kauśalya Āśvalāyana asked him: Venerable sir, from where does this breath (prāṇa) arise? How does it enter this body, or how, dividing itself, does it establish itself? By what does it depart? How is it spoken of as external and as within the self?
Praśna 3.2
तस्मै स होउवाचातिप्रष्चान् पृच्छसि ब्रह्मिष्ठोऽसीति
तस्मात्तेऽहं ब्रवीमि ॥ ३.२ ॥
He said to him: You ask too many questions; you are most devoted to brahman. Therefore I will tell you.
Praśna 3.3
आत्मन एष प्राणो जायते ।
यथैषा पुरुषे
छायैतस्मिन्नेतदाततं
मनोकृतेनायात्यस्मिञ्शरीरे ॥ ३.३ ॥
From the self (ātman) this breath (prāṇa) arises. As a shadow is in a person, so this is extended in him; by the action of the mind it comes into this body.
Praśna 3.4
यथा सम्रादेवाधिकृतान् विनियुङ्क्ते ।
एतन् ग्रामानोतान्
ग्रामानधितिष्टस्वेत्येवमेवैष प्राण इतरान् प्राणान् पृथक्
पृथगेव सन्निधत्ते ॥ ३.४ ॥
Just as a sovereign king assigns his officials, saying, "Go to these villages, rule over those villages," so too this prāṇa assigns the other prāṇas, each separately, and places them in their positions.
Praśna 3.5
पायूपस्थेऽपानं चक्षुःश्रोत्रे मुखनासिकाभ्यां प्राणः
स्वयं
प्रातिष्टते मध्ये तु समानः ।
एष ह्येतद्धुतमन्नं समं
नयति
तस्मादेताः सप्तार्चिषो भवन्ति ॥ ३.५ ॥
In the anus and the genitals is apāna; in the eyes and ears, and through mouth and nose, prāṇa itself stands forth; and in the middle is samāna. It is this that carries evenly this offered food, and therefore seven flames arise from it.
Praśna 3.6
हृदि ह्येष आत्मा ।
अत्रैतदेकशतं नाडीनं तासां शतं
शतमेकैकस्या द्वासप्ततिर्द्वासप्ततिः
प्रतिशाखानाडीसहस्राणि
भवन्त्यासु व्यानश्चरति ॥ ३.६ ॥
This self is in the heart. From here there are one hundred and one channels; of these, each one has a hundred, and each of those has seventy-two, and each of those seventy-two has further thousands of branch channels. In these vyāna moves about.
Praśna 3.7
अथैकयोर्ध्व उदानः पुण्येन पुण्यं लोकं नयति पापेन
पापमुभाभ्यामेव मनुष्यलोकम् ॥ ३.७ ॥
Then, through one of these, the upward-moving udāna leads a person by merit to a world of merit, and by demerit to a world of demerit; and by both alone to the human world.
Praśna 3.8
आदित्यो ह वै बाह्यः प्राण उदयत्येष ह्येनं चाक्षुषं
प्राणमनुगृह्णानः ।
पृथिव्यां या देवता सैषा पुरुषस्य
अपानमवष्टभ्यान्तरा यदाकाशः स समानो वायुर्व्यानः ॥ ३.८ ॥
Indeed the sun is the external breath, which rises, for it rises favouring the breath of the eye. The deity that is in the earth is the same as that which, supporting the apāna of the person, is in between; and the space between is the samāna air, and it is the vyāna.
Praśna 3.9
तेजो ह वा उदानस्तस्मादुपशान्ततेजाः ।
पुनर्भवमिन्द्रियैर्मनसि सम्पध्यमानैः ॥ ३.९ ॥
Indeed, heat is the udāna; therefore one whose heat has subsided, with the senses merged into the mind, obtains rebirth.
Praśna 3.10
यच्चित्तस्तेनैष प्राणमायाति ।
प्राणस्तेजसा युक्तः सहात्मना
तथासङ्कल्पितं लोकं नयति ॥ ३.१० ॥
With whatever mind he has, with that he comes to the breath; the breath, joined with heat and together with the self, leads him to whatever world was intended.
Praśna 3.11
य एवं विद्वान् प्राणं वेद न हास्य प्रजा हीयतेऽमृतो
भवति तदेषः श्लोकः ॥ ३.११ ॥
He who, knowing thus, knows the breath: his offspring does not perish; he becomes immortal. On this there is this verse.
Praśna 3.12
उत्पत्तिमायतिं स्थानं विभुत्वं चैव पञ्चधा ।
अध्यात्मं चैव प्राणस्य विज्ञायामृतमश्नुते
विज्ञायामृतमश्नुत इति ॥ ३.१२ ॥
Knowing the origin, the coming, the abode, the all-pervasiveness of prāṇa, and its inward nature in its fivefold form, one attains immortality. Having known, one attains immortality, thus.