Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In the Rig Veda (R.V.IV.XL.5), Nrishad is the dweller amongst humans; Nrishad is explained as Chaitanya or 'Consciousness' or Prana or 'vitality' because both dwell in humans. [5] In his commentary on the Isha Upanishad, [6] [page needed] Sri Aurobindo explains that the Atman, the Self manifests through a seven-fold movement of Prakrti.
Prana is divided into ten main functions: The five Pranas – Prana, Apana, Udana, Vyana and Samana – and the five Upa-Pranas – Naga, Kurma, Devadatta, Krikala and Dhananjaya. Pranayama , one of the eight limbs of yoga , is intended to expand conscious awareness of prana.
The Sanskrit word Prajñā means "Jñāna or Chaitanya (consciousness)", [6] [7] and spontaneous concept [8] [note 1]. Brahman is the Absolute, [9] [Web 4] Consciousness, [9] Infinite [Web 4] and "Supreme Truth". [Web 4] Especially "Brahman is Jñāna"; "The ultimate reality is Prajna". [Web 5] "Prajnanam Brahma" means "Brahma-Chaitanya" or ...
The prana-maya (body made of vital breath or prana), The mano-maya (body made of mind), The vijñana-maya (body made of consciousness) The ananda-maya (bliss body, the subtlest level). Subtle internal anatomy included a central channel . [8] Later Vedic texts called samhitas and brahmanas contain a theory of five "winds" or "breaths" (vayus ...
And, in the Kaushitaki Upanishad III.iii.4, Indra describes 'Death' as complete absorption in Prana when Prānā and Prajñā ('consciousness' or 'self'), which together live in the body and together depart, become one. [11]
there are six types of consciousness, each unique to one of the internal sense organs; consciousness (viññā ṇ a) is separate (and arises) from mind (mano) here, consciousness cognizes or is aware of its specific sense base (including the mind and mind objects) viññā ṇ a is a prerequisite for the arising of craving (ta ṇ hā)
The Brahman is Prana, and the life of the gods that are the vital sensory organs in human body, [7] their beginning and end. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] The soul weaves a connection to the gods of sensory organs similar to a spider, states the Brahma Upanishad.
The first-created rayi and prana, mentioned by the philosopher Pippalada, refer to matter and spirit. [4] That Brahman is the non-dual reality can only be known by the process of differentiation from the five elements, differentiation is necessary to separate Brahman from the elements that make up the perceived world.