What is in Upanishadas !

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PRASANA UPANISADA<br><br>Kausalya, son of Asvala,

questioned sage Pippalada; O bhagavn Pippalada ! Whence is

this Prana born? How does it come into this body? How

does it abide after it has divided itself? How does it

go out? How does it support what is without? How

does it support all within the body?<br><br>He

replied; You ask questions about transcendental matters. I

will explain to thee because you are a great enquirer

of Brahma.<br><br>This Prana (vital life force) is

born of the Atman (Soul). As is this shadow in the

man, so is this Prana in the Soul. By the action of

the mind this enters this body.<br><br>As a king

commands his officers, saying to them; Govern these or

those villages; so does this Prana dispose the other

Pranas, each for their separate allotted work.<br><br>The

Apana dwells in the organs of excretion and generation;

the Prana itself abides in the eye, ear, mouth and

nose. In the middle is Samana. It distributes the food

supplied equally and the seven flames proceed from

it.<br><br>This Atman is in the heart. Here there are a hundred

and one nerves (arteries). Each of them has a hundred

branches; again every one these has seventy-two thousands

sub-branches In these the Vyana moves.<br><br>Again through

one other, the Udana ascending, leads up upwards to

the virtuous world by good work; to sinful worlds by

sin; and to the world of men by virtue and sin

combined. <br><br>The Sun verily is the external Prana. He

rises and assists the Prana in the eye. The goddess of

the earth attracts Apana downwards. The other between

the sun and the earth is Samana. The wind is

Vyana.<br><br>The external fire indeed is Udana. Therefore, he

whose fire has gone out, enters another body with his

senses absorbed in the mind.<br><br>Whatever his thought

(at the time of death), with that he attains Prana;

and Prana united with Udana together with the Jivatma

(individual soul) leads on to the world, thought of. The

learned man who knows Prana thus his offspring does not

perish and he become immortal.<br><br>He who knows the

origin, the entry, the seat, the fivefold distribution of

Prana and its internal state in the body, obtains

immortality.<br><br>Hari Aum