हस्तमेवाप्येति यो हस्तमेवास्तमेत्यादातव्यमेवाप्येति य आदातव्यमेवास्तमेतीन्द्रमेवाप्येति य इन्द्रमेवास्तमेत्यमृतामेवाप्येति योऽमृतामेवास्तमेति मुख्यमेवाप्येति यो मुख्यमेवास्तमेति विज्ञानमेवाप्येति तदमृतमभयमशोकमनन्तनिर्बीजमेवाप्येतीति होवाच
hastamevāpyeti yo hastamevāstametyādātavyamevāpyeti ya ādātavyamevāstametīndramevāpyeti ya indramevāstametyamṛtāmevāpyeti yo'mṛtāmevāstameti mukhyamevāpyeti yo mukhyamevāstameti vijñānamevāpyeti tadamṛtamabhayamaśokamanantanirbījamevāpyetīti hovāca
Into the hand enters that which sets in the hand; into the graspable enters that which sets in the graspable; into Indra enters that which sets in Indra; into Amṛtā enters that which sets in Amṛtā; into the chief breath enters that which sets in it; into knowledge it enters; and into that immortal, fearless, sorrowless, endless, seedless — into it it enters. So he said.
284976ea0dcd · 发布于 2026年7月29日 04:12:03 UTC
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The seventh step: the hand, the graspable, Indra, the channel Amṛtā, the “chief” breath.
Mukhya-prāṇa, “the chief breath”, is the usual name in the Upaniṣads for the prāṇa that presides over the rest; in the third adhyāya of the Kauṣītaki it is this one that raises the lying body. Here it too is named a thing that sets into knowledge.
This is worth keeping. In the Kauṣītaki prāṇa was declared the highest and identified with prajñā: “what is prāṇa, that is prajñā”. Here the order differs: the breath sets into knowledge, and knowledge into the seedless. The two books look from different sides, and both are right: there it was proved that without prāṇa no organ exists; here — that even prāṇa is not the last.
The channel's name is Amṛtā, “the immortal one”. It is joined with Indra and with the hand: with the god of victories and the organ of seizing. The combination is almost ironic — immortality assigned to that with which one grabs.