Adhikarana IX — The chief Prana is also atomic

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Adhikarana IX — The chief Prana is also atomic

Doubt: Is the chief Prana all-pervading or is it atomic?

Purvapaksha: The chief Prana is all-pervading as the following Shruti describes it. (Br. Up., I., 3. 21 and 22).

21. He (chief Prana) is also Brahmanaspati, for speech is Brahman (Yajur Veda), and he is her lord; therefore, he is Brahmanaspati.

22. He (chief Prana) is also Saman (the Udgitha), for speech is Saman (Sama Veda), and that is both speech (Sa) and breath (Ama). This is why Simian is called Saman.

Or because he is equal (Sama) to a grub, equal to a gnat, equal to an elephant, equal to these three worlds, nay, equal to this universe, therefore, he is Saman. He who thus knows this Saman, obtains union and oneness with Saman.

This shows that Prana is all-pervading as it is the same in all the three worlds.

Siddhanta: The chief Prana is atomic as shown in the next Sutra.

SUTRA II. 4. 13.

अणुश्च॥२.४.१३॥

aṇuśca ..2.4.13..

… Anuh, atom, atomic. .. Cha, and.

13. The chief Prana is also atomic — 252

COMMENTARY

The chief Prana is also atomic, because the text declares that it passes out of the body along with the Jiva. Had it not been atomic, the passing out would be inappropriate regarding it. The Brihadaranyaka, IV., 4. 2. says that the chief Prana also passes out along with the Jiva.

He has become one. they say, he does not see. He has become one, they say, he does not smell. Ife has become one, they say. he does not taste. He has become one, they say, he does not speak. Tie has become one, they say, he does not hear. He has become one, they say, he does not think. He has become one, they say, he does not touch. He has become one, they say, he does not know. The point of his heart becomes lighted up, and by that light the Self departs, either through the eye, or through the skull, or through other places of the hotly. Ami when he thus departs, life (the chief Prana) departs after him, and when life thus departs all the other vital spirits (Pranas) depart after it. He is conscious, and being conscious he follows and departs.

Then both his knowledge and his work take hold of him, and his acquaintance with former things.

The all-embracingness ascribed to chief Prana in the text quoted by the Purvapakshin. must be interpreted to mean only that the life of all living and breathing ere creatures, depends upon the chief Prana.

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