प्राणम् देवाः अनु प्राणन्ति मनुष्याः पशवः च ये प्राणः हि भूतानाम् आयुः तस्मात् सर्वायुषम् उच्यते सर्वम् एव ते आयुः यन्ति ये प्राणम् ब्रह्म उपासते प्राणः हि भूतानाम् आयुः तस्मात् सर्वायुषम् उच्यते इति तस्य एषः एव शारीरः आत्मा यः पूर्वस्य तस्मात् वै एतस्मात् प्राणमयात् अन्यः अन्तरः आत्मा मनोमयः तेन एषः पूर्णः सः वै एषः पुरुषविधः एव तस्य पुरुषविधताम् अन्वयम् पुरुषविधः तस्य यजुः एव शिरः ऋक् दक्षिणः पक्षः साम उत्तरः पक्षः आदेशः आत्मा अथर्वाङ्गिरसः पुछ्छम् प्रतिष्ठा तत् अपि एषः श्लोकः भवति
prāṇam devāḥ anu prāṇanti manuṣyāḥ paśavaḥ ca ye prāṇaḥ hi bhūtānām āyuḥ tasmāt sarvāyuṣam ucyate sarvam eva te āyuḥ yanti ye prāṇam brahma upāsate prāṇaḥ hi bhūtānām āyuḥ tasmāt sarvāyuṣam ucyate iti tasya eṣaḥ eva śārīraḥ ātmā yaḥ pūrvasya tasmāt vai etasmāt prāṇamayāt anyaḥ antaraḥ ātmā manomayaḥ tena eṣaḥ pūrṇaḥ saḥ vai eṣaḥ puruṣavidhaḥ eva tasya puruṣavidhatām anvayam puruṣavidhaḥ tasya yajuḥ eva śiraḥ ṛk dakṣiṇaḥ pakṣaḥ sāma uttaraḥ pakṣaḥ ādeśaḥ ātmā atharvāṅgirasaḥ puchcham pratiṣṭhā tat api eṣaḥ ślokaḥ bhavati
By breath the gods breathe, and men, and cattle: breath is the life of beings, and therefore it is called the whole of life. The full span of life is attained by those who worship breath as Brahman: for breath is the life of beings, and therefore it is called the whole of life. He is the embodied self of the former. But within this [self] made of breath is another self, consisting of mind: by that the former is filled. He too has the form of a man: after the man-shape of the one, man-shaped is the other. The Yajus is his head, the Ṛc his right side, the Sāman his left side, instruction his trunk, the Atharvāṅgirases his lower part, the support. Of that there is also a verse.
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The second sheath is the prāṇa. prāṇaṁ devā anu prāṇanti — "after the breath the gods too breathe": life is the one currency of every storey of the universe, from gods to cattle; sarvāyuṣam — "the whole of life": the fullness of every creature's term is measured by breath. And again the honest wage of a level: he who worships the prāṇa as Brahman receives āyus — a full lifetime.
tasyaiṣa eva śārīra ātmā yaḥ pūrvasya — the formula that will now recur at every seam: "he is the embodied self of the former": breath is the soul of the body, the body the garment of breath: each inner layer is the "dweller" of the outer; the ladder of sheaths is a ladder of dwellers, in which each outer one proves to be a house for the more inward.
Within the prāṇa is the manomaya, the self made of mind; and its anatomy is unexpected: head the Yajus, sides the Ṛc and the Sāman, trunk ādeśa (instruction), support the Atharvāṅgirases: the mind is described as woven of the Vedas! Not the physiology of thought but its nourishment: the mind consists of what fills it; the mind of a Vedic man is built of sacred speech as the body is of food. A question to every mind for all time: of what are your head, your sides, your support composed?