[Advaita-l] 'Prana' as Brahman

[Kaushik Chevendra]

Namaste

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> In the gloss Anandagiri Acharya clarifies:
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>  “अहं वैश्वानरो भूत्वा प्राणिनां देहमाश्रितः । प्राणापानसमायुक्तः
> पचाम्यन्नं चतुर्विधम्॥”(भ. गी. १५। १४)
> <https://advaitasharada.sringeri.net/display/bhashya/Gita?page=15&id=BG_C15_V14&hl=%20%E2%80%9C%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%82%20%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B%20%E0%A4%AD%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%20%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%20%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%83%C2%A0%E0%A5%A4%20%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%83%20%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%82%20%E0%A4%9A%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A5%A5%E2%80%9D(%E0%A4%AD.%20%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%80.%20%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AB%E0%A5%A4%20%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AA)> इति
> स्मृतेरग्नेः प्राणसम्बन्धादग्निर्भोक्ता लक्ष्यत इत्याह –
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> प्राणं चेति ।
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> By the word 'prana' in the Bhashya we aught to take Agni, the Bhokta, on
> the basis of the Bh.Gita 15.14 verse:  I, as, the fire cook the food in
> everyone's stomach'.  Since agni is connected with prana, agni, bhokta is
> indicated by the word prana.
>

That's fine. In either case prana is identified with not only hiranyagarbha
but also with Vishnu(as per anandagiri gloss),rudra and sun and the entire
universe. Hence there is no problem.

Namo narayana

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> subbu
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