Upanishads · Nṛsiṃha-tāpanī Pūrva 4.41
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Devanāgarī
ओं यो ह वै नृसिंहो देवो भगवान् यश्च प्राणः भूर्भुवः स्वस्तस्मै वै नमो नमः
Transliteration (IAST)
oṃ yo ha vai nṛsiṃho devo bhagavān yaśca prāṇaḥ bhūrbhuvaḥ svastasmai vai namo namaḥ
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
ओं यः ह वैoṃ yaḥ ha vaiOṁ. He who; Oṁ. The very one who
नृसिंहः देवः सः भगवान्nṛsiṃhaḥ devaḥ saḥ bhagavānis the God Nṛsiṃha — he is the Lord; the god Nṛsiṃha is — he is Bhagavān
यः च प्राणःyaḥ ca prāṇaḥand who is the breath; and the one who is prāṇa
भूर्भुवः स्वःbhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥearth, mid-air, heaven; bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ
तस्मै वै नमः नमःtasmai vai namaḥ namaḥto him be bow upon bow; to him worship and worship
Translation
Oṁ. He who is the God Nṛsiṃha — He is the Lord, and He is the breath. Earth, mid-air, heaven! To him be bow upon bow.
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The twenty-seventh name is prāṇa, the breath, and it is set immediately after the three names of death.
This neighbourhood is better than any argument.
Prāṇa in the Upaniṣads is what is nearest and least noticed. One does not choose it and does not remember it; it goes on while a man is busy with other things.
The Kauṣītaki identifies it with Brahman, and its whole third adhyāya proves the primacy of breath: without speech, sight and mind one lives; without it, no.
And now, after death, Yama and the Ender, is named that with which you breathe.
Note that in the Brahma Upaniṣad too the first thing said in answer to Śaunaka's question was: prāṇo hy eṣa ātmā — “for the breath is this very Ātman”.