[Advaita-l] Tattvabodha of Adi Sankaracharya - 17

[V Subrahmanian]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 7:25 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste Kartik ji
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> Manas and brain are related but not the same. The latter is the physical
> correlate of the sUxma entity called manas.
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> Similarly prANa and air we breathe are related. That is my current
> understanding.
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That which is vAyu outside is known by the name Prana inside the body. The
outside Vayu is 'adhidaivika' (cosmic) and the prana inside the body is
adhyatmika (individual). This idea is clear in our Bhashyas, etc.

regards
subbu

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