त्रीणि आत्मने अकुरुत इति मनो वाचम् प्राणम् तानि आत्मने अकुरुत अन्यत्रमनाः अभूवम् न अदर्शम् अन्यत्रमनाः अभूवम् न अश्रौषम् इति मनसा हि एव पश्यति मनसा शृणोति कामः संकल्पः विचिकित्सा श्रद्धा अश्रद्धा धृतिः अधृतिः ह्रीः धीः भीः इति एतत् सर्वम् मनः एव तस्मात् अपि पृष्ठतः उपस्पृष्टः मनसा विजानाति यः कः च शब्दः वाक् एव सा एषा हि अन्तम् आयत्ता एषा हि न प्राणः अपानः व्यानः उदानः समानः अनः इति एतत् सर्वम् प्राणः एव एतन्मयः वा अयम् आत्मा वाङ्मयः मनोमयः प्राणमयः
trīṇi ātmane akuruta iti mano vācam prāṇam tāni ātmane akuruta anyatramanāḥ abhūvam na adarśam anyatramanāḥ abhūvam na aśrauṣam iti manasā hi eva paśyati manasā śṛṇoti kāmaḥ saṃkalpaḥ vicikitsā śraddhā aśraddhā dhṛtiḥ adhṛtiḥ hrīḥ dhīḥ bhīḥ iti etat sarvam manaḥ eva tasmāt api pṛṣṭhataḥ upaspṛṣṭaḥ manasā vijānāti yaḥ kaḥ ca śabdaḥ vāk eva sā eṣā hi antam āyattā eṣā hi na prāṇaḥ apānaḥ vyānaḥ udānaḥ samānaḥ anaḥ iti etat sarvam prāṇaḥ eva etanmayaḥ vā ayam ātmā vāṅmayaḥ manomayaḥ prāṇamayaḥ
"Three he made for himself" — mind, speech and breath: these he made for himself. People say: "My mind was elsewhere — I did not see; my mind was elsewhere — I did not hear": it is with the mind that one sees, with the mind that one hears. Desire, resolve, doubt, faith, unbelief, steadfastness, unsteadiness, modesty, understanding, fear — all this is mind. Therefore even when touched from behind a man knows it by the mind. Whatever sound there is, is speech: it reaches its end [in objects], and of itself it is not. Prāṇa, apāna, vyāna, udāna, samāna, ana — all this is breath. Of these this ātman consists: it consists of speech, it consists of mind, it consists of breath.
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The three "foods for himself" are mind, speech and breath: the three constituents of the inner man, and of each the essential thing is said. Of the mind, with an appeal to universally recognised experience: "my mind was elsewhere — I did not see": it is not the eye that perceives but the mind behind the eye; and ten movements of the heart — from desire to fear and modesty — "all this is mind": the oldest inventory of the inner life, a psychology in a single verse.
Of speech, that every sound is speech; of breath, that all five prāṇas and the "ana" itself are one breath. And then the conclusion on which the whole anthropology of the Upaniṣads rests: etan-mayo vā ayam ātmā — "of this the [embodied] self consists: of speech, of mind, of breath". The Father's three foods are the trinity of our own composition; the Chāndogya derived it from food, water and heat (6.5–6) — the Bṛhadāraṇyaka gives the same trinity as the portion the Father set aside for himself: the inner man is no accidental growth but his reserved meal, that in us which is meant for him.