[Advaita-l] 'Prana' as Brahman

[Kaushik Chevendra]

Namaste sir.

While the Bh.Gita Vishvarupa has everyone else 'within' Bhagavan, here
> everything, including Rudra and Vishnu, is 'within' Prana.  And Shankara
> says clearly there: this Prana is prathamaja.  (And the Brihadaranyaka
> Bhashya about Prajapati who has attained that status through sadhana is
> stated to have independent capacity to create, sustain, etc. by Shankara.)
>
> In continuation here. It's a wrong statment to say that everything is
within "prana" here.

1) In the gita bhasya acharya says that with one fourth of himself krishna
has pervaded the entire universe (including various brahmanadas). It would
be ridiculous to say that there is another jeeva "prana" who is above him
etc ignoring the statments of acharya saying "none is equal or greater than
you".

2) In the prashnopanishad acharya identified this prana as the Atman
(brahman) in the 2.7 bhasya. Because there is a stuti of prana by other
jeevas, here he is being identified as the Atman of all. Verily it is this
Chaitanyam on whom all the upadhis of creation, sustenance etc are
superimposed on. Hence the stuti is of Atman and not the diety prana.
Because in the upanishad itself this prana is created by brahma.

Namo narayana

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