The chief Prana is not an organ, because there is a scriptural statement of its being different from sense organs. — 287.

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SUTRA II. 4. 18.

भेदश्रुतेः॥२.४.१८॥

bhedaśruteḥ ..2.4.18..

… Bheda-Shruteh, because there is difference-denoting text.

18. The chief Prana is not an organ, because there is a scriptural statement of its being different from sense organs. — 287.

COMMENTARY

The text of the Mundaka Upanishad, II., 1. 3, clearly mentions: «From Him is born Prana, and the Manas and all organs». Thus the Prana is separated from organs and therefore it is not an organ. But Manas is also mentioned separately from organs or Indriyas in the same text, and it also ought not to be called an Indriya. To this we reply that Manas is an Indriya, because it is formally included in the organs in the Bhagavat Gita, XV., 7, where it is called distinctly the sixth organ. For reference the Mundaka and the Gita texts are given below:

From him (when entering on creation) is born breath (Prana), mind (Manas), and all organs of sense, ether, air, light, water, and (he earth, the support of all. (Mundaka Upanishad. II., 1.3.)

A portion of Mine own Self, transformed in the world of life into an immortal Spirit, draweth round itself the senses of which the mind is the sixth, veiled in Matter. (Bhagawat Gita, XV., 7.)

The Lord also speaks of Himself as Manas among the Indriyas (Bhagavat Gita, X., 22.)

Of the Vedas I am the Sama Veda; I am Vasava of the Shining Ones; and of the senses I am the mind; I am of living beings the intelligence.

Note: As a general rule Manas is not included in the Indriyas in many passages of the Upanishads. Compare, for example, Katha, III., 4. 10; VI., 7; Shvetashvatara, II., 8; Prashna III., 9; Gita, II., 7 and 40 and 42, and XVIII., 33.

SUTRA II. 4. 19.

वैलक्षण्याच्च॥२.४.१९॥

vailakṣaṇyācca ..2.4.19..

… Vailakshanyat, on account of difference of characteristics. Cha, and.

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