हिन्दी
After that Kaushalan (son of Ashwala) asked him, "Lord, from where does this 'Prana' originate? How does it come into this body or how is it situated by dividing itself? By whom does the Utkraman (travel) take place, or how does one imbibe external objects and internal spirituality?
Sage Pippalad replied to him, “You are asking many and difficult questions; But, since you are a most virtuous soul (Brahmishtha), I will tell you."
It is from the 'soul' that this 'prana'-air is produced; Just as the shadow arises from the Man, so this 'prana' is pervaded (pervaded) in the 'soul' and it enters this body by the process of 'mind'.
Just as an emperor appoints his officers and orders one - 'You rule these villages for me', and orders another - 'You rule these other villages for me', similarly Thus this air, this 'Prana' (breath) appoints other Pranas in their separate regions.
In the anus and the organ of pleasure is the lower breath, and in the eyes and the ears, the mouth and the nose, the main breath itself is seated.
Dut the medial breath is in the middle.
This is he that equally distribute the burnt offering of food; from this the seven fires are born.
This 'soul' resides in the heart, and in this heart, there are one hundred and one nerves, and each nerve has one hundred branch-nerves, and each branch has seventy-two thousand sub-branches-nerves, Vyana air (breath-pervasor) circulates in all of them.
Of these many there is one by which the upper breath departs, that by virtue take to the heaven of virtue, by sin to the hell of sin, and by mingled sin and righteousness back to the human world.
Sun is the main life outside this body, because it nourishes the eyes while rising.
The divinity in the earth attracts the apana vayu (lower breath) of man, and the ether between is the medial breath; air is the breath pervasor.
Light, the primal energy, is the upper breath; therefore, when the light and heat in a man starts to wane, his senses get confined into the mind and in that state, he leaves for rebirth.
Whatsoever be the mind of a man, with that mind he seeks refuge with the breath, when he dies.
The breath and the Udan breath (Air from throat) lead him with the Spirit within him to the world of his imaginings.
The scholar who knows about 'Prana' in this way, his lineage is not wasted, he becomes immortal.
For which this verse (Shrutivachan) is.
By knowing the origin of the Breath, his coming and his staying and his lordship in the five provinces, likewise his relation to the Spirit, one shall taste immortality.
