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Prana (The breath of life)
Prana burns as Fire;
he shines as the Sun;
He rains as the Cloud;
He blows as the Winds;
He crashes as the thunder in the Sky;
He is the Earth;
he has form and no form;
Prana is immortality
Prashana Upanishad offers a scientific explanation of self and how it experiences and creates the outside reality through Prana energy (creative intelligence).
We manifest as Prana during journey which is shadow of our consciousness and manifests as creative intelligence with infinite potential. This creative intelligence is guided by the desire energy which manifest through space, air, fire, water, earth, the senses, the mind, and food. From food came strength, austerity, the scriptures, sacrifice and all the worlds. And everything was given name and form.
As rivers lose their private name and form when they reach the sea, so that people speak Of the sea alone, so all the sixteen Forms disappear when the self is realized. Then there is no more name and form for us, and we attain immortality.
Prana (creative intelligence) means “energy combined with consciousness”; intelligence that knows “I am moving”; that force whose motion or movement is self-regulated and not governed by anything else; that which is not blind force; and that which has purpose in vibrating, throbbing, and animating in a particular pattern or manner. That self-intelligent force is called prana!
Prana is the energetic potential that imbues us with life. We cultivate awareness and control of this life force through the practice of pranayama, control of the breath, which eventually culminates in the practice of pratyahara, withdrawal of the senses from the external world. Practising them systematically leads us into meditation and the unveiling of our inmost self.
Everything we express and experience in the physical dimension manifests in the form of intellect (buddhi), memory (smriti), insecurity or fear (bhaya) and the positive emotion (bhavana), which are different manifestations of chetana tattwa (creative intelligence).
