Shloka 61

Adhyaya 8: Yogasthanas, Ashtanga Yoga, Pranayama-Siddhi, and Shiva-Dhyana leading to Samadhi

Devanagari script

प्रसाद इति सम्प्रोक्तः स्वान्ते त्विह चतुष्टये प्राणो ऽपानः समानश् च उदानो व्यान एव च

Transliteration

prasāda iti samproktaḥ svānte tviha catuṣṭaye prāṇo 'pānaḥ samānaś ca udāno vyāna eva ca

Translation

अपने अन्तःकरण में जो निर्मलता और अनुग्रह प्रकट हो, वही ‘प्रसाद’ कहा गया है। और यहाँ इस चतुष्टय के प्रसंग में पाँच प्राण-वायु हैं—प्राण, अपान, समान, उदान और व्यान।

Word by Word

• प्रसादः: inner clarity/grace

• इति: thus

• सम्प्रोक्तः: has been proclaimed/defined

• स्वान्ते: in one’s own inner being (heart-mind)

• तु: indeed

• इह: here

• चतुष्टये: in the set/quaternion (a grouped teaching-unit)

• प्राणः: the upward-moving life-breath

• अपानः: the downward-moving life-breath

• समानः: the equalizing/digestive vital current

• च: and

• उदानः: the ascending vital current (governing speech/exit upward)

• व्यानः: the pervading vital current (circulation/pervasion)

• एव: precisely/indeed

• च: and

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the Linga Purana teaching to the sages of Naimisharanya)