pañcavṛttirmanovadvyapadiśyate ..2.4.12..

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SUTRA II. 4. 12.

पञ्चवृत्तिर्मनोवद्व्यपदिश्यते॥२.४.१२॥

pañcavṛttirmanovadvyapadiśyate ..2.4.12..

… Pancha-vrittih, having five functions. …. Manovat, like the mind, …Vyapadishyate, it is designated.

12. The chief Prana is designated as having five functions like the Manas — 281.

COMMENTARY

The Prana, though one, becomes fivefold, according to the particular organ of the body which it occupies for the time being, and which it vitalizes. Its functions become fivefold and diverse, owing to the diversity of the organs through which it works. The chief Prana, therefore, is designated by these five names of Prana, Apana, etc. These five are consequently the five aspects or functions of the chief Prana, and not separate from it. The difference of nomenclature is owing to the difference of their activities. There is no essential difference in their nature, and the word Prana is a common name for them all. (As one energy of steam by moving different machines, such as a printing press, the fan, the drilling machines, etc., may perform different functions, according to the machine through which it acts, so the chief Prana has different functions according to the different organs through which it works). In fact there is a distinct text of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad which says that these five are verily Pranas (I., 5. 3):

The Prana, the Apana, the Vyana, the Udana and the Samana, all that is breathing is Prana only.

It is just like the functions of the mind mentioned in the same text. The full text is given below: (Br. Up., I., 5. 3):

When it is said, that ‘he made three for himself’, that means that he made mind, speech and breath for himself. As people say. ‘My mind was elsewhere, I did not sec; my mind was elsewhere, I did not hear’, it is clear that a man sees with his mind and hears with his mind. Desire, representation, doubt, faith, want of faith, memory, forgetfulness, shame, reflexion, fear, all this is mind. Therefore, even if a man is touched on the back, he knows it through the mind.

Whatever Bound there is, that is speech. Speech indeed is intended for an end or object, it is nothing by itself.

The Prana or up-breathing, the Apana or down-breathing, the Vyana or back-breathing, the Udana or out-breathing, the Samana or on-breathing, all that is breathing is breath (Prana) only. Verily that Self consists of it; that Self: consists of speech, mind, and breath.

Here though the names and the functions are different, yet desire, purpose, doubt, etc., are all forms of mind and not different from it, but only modifications of it; so Prana, Apana, etc., are merely modifications of the chief Prana.

The word ‘Manovat’ may also be explained as «according to the mind having five functions as taught in the Yoga philosophy». As the five functions of the mind are not different from the mind, so the five functions of the Prana are not different from the Prana.

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