Shloka 9
Adhyāya 42 — Mahābhūta–Indriya–Adhyātma-Vyavasthā
Brahmā’s Instruction on Elements and Faculties
अन्तरात्मनि चाप्येते नियता: पठच वायव: । वाड्मनोबुद्धिभि: सार्द्धमिदमष्टात्मके जगत्
antarātmani cāpy ete niyatāḥ pañca vāyavaḥ | vāṅmanobuddhibhiḥ sārdham idam aṣṭātmake jagat ||
Wika ni Vāyu-deva: “Sa loob ng panloob na sarili (ang nilalang na may katawan) nananahan, sa ilalim ng wastong kaayusan, ang limang hininga ng buhay—prāṇa, apāna, udāna, samāna, at vyāna. Yamang nakapaloob sa katawan, sila’y maseselan at banayad. Kapag ibinilang kasama ng pananalita, isip, at talino, nagiging walo ang bilang. Ang walong ito ang saligang sangkap na pinagmumulan ng pagkakabuo ng daigdig na ito.”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches an eightfold framework of embodied existence: five vital airs (prāṇa, apāna, udāna, samāna, vyāna) together with speech, mind, and intellect. These are presented as subtle inner constituents and as the material basis (upādāna) through which the world of experience is constituted.
Vāyu-deva is instructing the listener in an inner, yogic-cosmological analysis of the person. He identifies the regulated vital functions within the body and then expands the count by adding the cognitive and expressive faculties, framing them as foundational principles that underlie worldly manifestation and experience.