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Then Sauryâyanin Gârgya asked: "Sir, What are they that sleep in this man, and what are they that are awake in him? W…
He replied: "O Gârgya, As all the rays of the sun, when it sets, are gathered up in that disc of light, and as they, …
The fires of the prânas are, as it were, awake in that town (the body). The Apâna is the Gârhapatya fire, the Vyâna t…
Because it carries equally these two oblations, the out-breathing and the in-breathing, the Samâna is he (the Hotri p…
There that god (the mind) enjoys in sleep greatness. What has been seen, he sees again; what has been heard, he hears…
And when he is overpowered by light, then that god sees no dreams, and at that time that happiness arises in his body.
And, O friend, as birds go to a tree to roost, thus all this rests in the Highest Âtman,—
The earth and its subtile elements, the water and its subtile elements, the light and its subtile elements, the air a…
For he it is who sees, hears, smells, tastes, perceives, conceives, acts, he whose essence is knowledge, the person, …
He who knows that indestructible being, obtains (what is) the highest and indestructible, he without a shadow, withou…
He, O friend, who knows that indestructible being wherein the true knower, the vital spirits (prânas), together with …