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Fourth Pada : 1. Thus The Pranas After having taught that Ether and all the other elements are effects, and hence have originated, the Sutras had shown that the individual soul, although likewise .... [ More... ] 2. The Scriptural Statement Of The Plural The plural form exhibited by the text must be taken (not in its literal, but) in a secondary figurative sense .... [ More... ] 3. On Account Of Speech Having For Its Antecedent That For the following reason also the word 'prana,' in the text quoted, can denote Brahman only. Speech, i.e. the names which have for their object all things .... [ More... ] 4. They Are Seven... The question here arises whether those organs are seven only, or eleven--the doubt on this point being due to the conflicting nature of scriptural texts. [ More... ] 5. But The Hands... The organs are not seven only, but eleven, since the hands and the rest also contribute towards the experience and fruition of that which abides in the body .... [ More... ] 6. And They Are Minute As the text 'these are all alike, all infinite' (Bri. Up. I, 5, 13), declares speech, mind, and breath to be infinite, we conclude that the prânas are all-pervading. [ More... ] 7. And The Best By 'the best' we have to understand the chief vital air (mukhya prana), which, in the colloquy of the pranas, is determined to be the best because .... [ More... ] 8. Neither Air Nor Function... Is this main vital breath nothing else but air, the second of the elements? Or is it a certain motion of the air? Or is it air that has assumed .... [ More... ] 9. But Like The Eye And The Rest... Breath is not an element, but like sight and the rest, a special instrument of the soul. This appears from the fact that the texts mention it together with .... [ More... ] 10. And There Is No Objection On Account Of Its Not Having An Activity The karana of the Sutra means kriya, action. The objection raised on the ground that the principal breath does not exercise any form of activity helpful to the soul .... [ More... ] 11. It Is Designated As Having Five Functions Like Mind As desire, and so on, are not principles different from mind, although they are different functions and produce different effects .... [ More... ] 12. And It Is Minute This prana also is minute, since as before (i.e. as in the case of the organs) the text declares it to pass out of the body, to move, and so on, 'him when he passes .... [ More... ] 13. But The Rule Over The Pranas On The Part Of Fire... It has been shown that the pranas, together with the main prana, originate from Brahman, and have a limited size. [ More... ] 14. And On Account Of The Eternity Of This As the quality, inhering in all things, of being ruled by the highest Self, is eternal and definitely fixed by being connected with his essential nature .... [ More... ] 15. They, With The Exception Of The Best, Are Organs... Are all principles called pranas to be considered as 'organs' (indriyani), or is the 'best,' i.e. the chief prana, to be excepted? [ More... ] 16. On Account Of Scriptural Statement Of Difference... Texts such as 'from him is born prana, and the internal organ, and all organs' (Mu. Up. II, 1, 3) mention the vital breath separately from the organs .... [ More... ] 17. But The Making Of Names And Forms (Belongs) To Him Who Renders Tripartite... The Sutras have shown that the creation of the elements and organs in their collective aspect (samashti) and the activity of the individual souls proceed .... [ More... ] 18. Flesh Is Of Earthy Nature... The view that the description of tripartition, given in the passage 'each of these he made tripartite,' refers to a time subsequent to the creation of the .... [ More... ] 19. But On Account Of Their Distinctive Nature There Is That Designation, That Designation Each element indeed is of a threefold nature, owing to the primary tripartition; but as in each mixed element one definite element prevails .... [ More... ]

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