Upanishads · Yogakuṇḍalinī 1.44
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Devanāgarī
ततो यातौ वह्न्यपानौ प्राणमुष्णस्वरूपकम् । तेनात्यन्तप्रदीप्तेन ज्वलनो देहजस्तथा
Transliteration (IAST)
tato yātau vahnyapānau prāṇamuṣṇasvarūpakam | tenātyantapradīptena jvalano dehajastathā
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SanskritIASTMeaning
ततः यातौ वह्नि-अपानौtataḥ yātau vahni-apānauthen, having come together, fire and apana
प्राणम् उष्ण-स्वरूपकम्prāṇam uṣṇa-svarūpakamtoward the breath whose form is heat
तेन अत्यन्त-प्रदीप्तेनtena atyanta-pradīptenaby that, greatly kindled
ज्वलनः देह-जः तथाjvalanaḥ deha-jaḥ tathāand the flame born of the body
Translation
"Then fire and apana, having come together, [go] toward the breath whose form is heat; by that, greatly kindled, — and the flame born of the body…"
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The description continues: the three meet — fire, the lower breath, and the upper — and from their meeting the heat blazes up. Worth noting is that here too everything is built on the meeting of three. Not one of the three gives anything by itself: fire without wind goes out, wind without fire is cold, breath without either does nothing.
This structure is constant in descriptions of the inner work and deserves mention. Nowhere in these books does the result come from one alone: always something must meet something; and the word yoga, "union," discussed when reading Tripuratapini (18), is in this sense the name of the whole science. The Vaishnava side draws from this an observation relevant to the matter. If everything that occurs, occurs from a meeting, then the highest too is not attained alone: there too a meeting is required, and a meeting presupposes two.
Separately, a word must be said about ushna-svarupaka, "whose form is heat," said of the breath. The breath is called warm; and this again is an observation available to anyone: the out-breath is warm. This whole science grew out of attention to things everyone feels and no one looks at.