Brahma Sutras (Critical Exposition)
author: B. N. K. Sharma
edition: 2008, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
pages: 1835
ISBN-10: 8121500354
ISBN-13: 9788121500357
Topic: Hindu-philosophy
Genesis of Adhyatma-Mukhya-Prana
This chapter describes Genesis of Adhyatma-Mukhya-Prana located on page 325 of volume 2 in the book Brahma Sutras (Critical Exposition) compiled by B. N. K. Sharma. This book contains a Critical Exposition of the Brahmasutras of Badarayana including a thorough research on the commentaries of Shankara, Ramanuja and Madhva. The Vedanta Sutras represent an important treatise of Indian Philosophy teaching Vedic concepts as found in the Upanishads..
Sanskrit name of chapter: sresthadhikaranam or sresthadhikarana (srestha-adhikarana / adhikaranam). This edition includes the original Sanskrit text, an English translation, references to commentaries, detailled footnotes, IAST transliterated words and a large index.
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Brahma Sutras (Shankaracharya) [by George Thibaut]
They (the pranas) are senses, on account of being so designated, with the exception of the best (the mukhya prana). We have treated of the mukhya prana and the other eleven pranas in due order.--Now there arises another doubt, viz. whether the other pranas are functions of the mukhya prana or different beings.--The purvapakshin that they are mere functions, on account of scriptural statement....
Read full contents: II, 4, 17
Brahma Sutras (Ramanuja) [by George Thibaut]
By the best we have to understand the chief vital air (mukhya prana), which, in the colloquy of the pranas, is determined to be the best because it is the cause of the preservation of the body. This chief vital air the Purvapakshin maintains to be something non-created, since Scripture (Ri. Samh. V, 129, 2), By its own law the One was breathing without wind, shows that an effect of it, viz....
Read full contents: Sutra 2.4.7
Chandogya Upanishad (Madhva commentary) [by Srisa Chandra Vasu]
Thus this Mukhya Prana is the chief and best of all the Devas. Another reason of its being the best of all the Devas is that impelled by this Chief Prana whatever the Jiva eats or drinks, all that goes to nourish the other inferior Pranas, the Devas of the senses. The third reason for the superiority of this Chief Prana is that on knowing this Mukhya Prana one gets certainly release from the bondage of Samsara. All scriptures say so....
Read full contents: First Adhyaya, Second Khanda (14 mantras)
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