Verse 2.254

Sanskrit text and transliteration:

विराडात्मकतां याते पिण्डेऽध्यात्मावसायिनि ।
प्राणो वाय्वात्मतामेति प्रध्वस्तघटदीपवत् ॥ २५४ ॥

virāḍātmakatāṃ yāte piṇḍe'dhyātmāvasāyini |
prāṇo vāyvātmatāmeti pradhvastaghaṭadīpavat || 254 ||

English translation of verse 2.254:

When the individual human organism attains the nature of the Virāj, the indwelling vital force becomes one with vāyu (the Hiraṇyagarbha), in the same way as the light of a lamp enclosed in a pot (becomes the one diffused light) when the pot is broken.

Notes:

As a result of meditation on food, the individual physical organism becomes one with the Virāj, the cosmic being in its gross aspect. Then prāṇa, the vital force, which is inward and limited by the gross physical body, becomes one with the Hiraṇyagarbha in its unlimited aspect of vāyu, the source of all activity (kriyāpradhāna-vāyurūpaḥ). Here the self identifies itself with the Hiraṇyagarbha, the cosmic being in its subtle aspect, which again must be transcended. By overcoming the limiting adjuncts of the Hiraṇyagarbha, the Self finally remains in its own condition as what is free and unlimited. An example is given in order to drive home this point. The light of a lamp that is kept in a pot is. confined within it. When the put which limits the light is broken, the light that is within becomes pervasive.