ata eva ca sarvāṇyanu ..4.2.2..

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SUTRA IV. 2. 2.

अत एव च सर्वाण्यनु॥४.२.२॥

ata eva ca sarvāṇyanu ..4.2.2..

.. Atah, .. Eva, for this very reason. … Sarvani, all (the senses). … Anu, after.

2. And for this very reason, all (the other sense-organs) merge in the mind, after (the merging of speech). — 502.

COMMENTARY

In the above text of the Chhandogya Upanishad, there is mention of the merger of only speech in the mind. Lest one should fall into the error of thinking that other sense-organs like hearing, etc., do not merge in mind, the present Sutra declares that they also merge in mind, and not in anything else: but subsequent to the merging of speech.

It is to be understood that since the speech unites with the mind only, and not with fire (though there are some texts to that effect also such as Brihadaranyaka Upanishad III., 2. 13) it follows that all the other sense-organs unite also in the mind. But all do not simultaneously enter into the mind, they follow after the entrance of speech. As we find in the Prashna Upanishad (III., 9):

The Cosmic Fire verily is Udana. (It helps the Udana in man), therefore, when a person becomes exhausted of energy, he goes to another birth, with his sense-faculties merged in the mind.

Similarly, in the same Upanishad (IV., 2) we find:

He said to him, «As, O Gargya! all the rays of the sun when going to set, become one in that orb of light, and on his rising again they again spread out in all directions, so verily these all Devas become one in that High Divinity, the mind».

These two texts dearly show that all the sense-organ enter into the mind and not into anything else.

Adhikarana II — Then the mind merges

in the Prana or breath,

this is the second stage of death

Now the author considers the same text of the Chhandogya Upanishad, (VI., 6. 1) which says that the Manas enters the Prana (the Mind enters the Breath).

Doubt: After the sense-organs have entered the Mind, at the time of death, does the Mind go to the Prana or to the Moon?

Purvapaksha: The opponent says the mind enters» the Moon, for the Brihadaranyaka text (III., 2. 13, already given at page 429 ante), shows that Mind enters the Moon.

Siddhanta: This view is controverted in the next Sutra.

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