[Advaita-l] 'Prana' as Brahman

[V Subrahmanian]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 12:43 PM Kaushik Chevendra <
chevendrakaushik at gmail.com> wrote:

> Namaste sir
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>> Shankara calls this Prana 'prathamaja' an epithet for Brahmaa.  At the
>> end of that section Shankara says: इत्येवं सर्वात्मतया वागादिभिः प्राणैः
>> स्तुत्या गमितमहिमा प्राणः प्रजापतिरेवेत्यवधृतम् ॥   In the stuti it has
>> been emphatically established that Prana is indeed Prajapati.  It is this
>> Prana that was stated to pervade everything in the creation.
>>
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> Prana is not only called prajapati but also rudra, sun etc. Why the
> special emphasis on only "prathamaja". Here prana is taken be the Atman
> hence it's brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh, sun etc.
>

Shankara calls Prana prathamaja and says 'since he is the first-born, there
is no one to give him samskaras.' Hence the mantra says 'vraatya' =

1.

A

Brāhman,

or

man

of

the

three

first

classes,

in

whose

youth

the

customary

observances

have

been

omitted,

and

who

has

not

received

his

investiture

with

the

sacred

thread. This word has a negative sense. Here it is used not to denigrate
Prana but as a stuti. But the first-born epithet is there for Prana =
prathamaja.


regards

subbu


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> There is no contradiction or problem here.
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>> regards
>> subbu
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>>> Namo narayana
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