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Science of Prana ! Kabanthi asked Pippalada - "Bhagavan, from where indeed are these creatures born?"

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To him Pippalada said - "Prajapati desirous of procreation did penance and created a pair, Rayi and Prana with the desire of the twins multiplying into manyfold creation"

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"That Prana is Aditya and Rayi is Chandra - further, all that is form and devoid of form are aspects of Chandra..."

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"When the Sun rises in the East, Prana enters the rays...and that Sun appears as the manybodied Universe and also He is the Prana in all beings. Rk too speaks this truth"

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"He who takes manyfold forms and possessed of rays that carry Prana and knowing all that are born, the only Jyoti (Light) of 1000 rays (enveloping all directions) manifesting as Prana in all beings - is the Sun who rises in the East" Pippalada then speaks of the perpetual creation in terms of the dynamic interplay of polarities Prana and Rayi which lead to the illusion of Time. Sages saw the yearly course of the Sun (Zodiac or abstraction of the Tantrik experience of the correlation between Prana and Sun) as analogus to the dynamics of Prana and Rayi that sustains the creation. Sages realized the importance of the two nadis and breaths in the realization of Self and reincarnation and enunciated the principles in cryptic language. From the beginning of Mesha (Aja or Agni) to beginning of Tula (reflective of the balance of polarities Prana and Rayi), the northern course of Surya got described in analogy as the breathing through Surya nadi that rendered mukti and the south course Tula to Meena became breathing through Chandra nadi which reflected reincarnation and Prarabdha. The symbolism of Meena rasi as two-tail-biting-Fishes is the representation of breathing process (Prana and Apana) by which Prana is held in the body by the bonds of Karma. In fact without knowing the above secret of life, the mantras of Prsnopanishad cannot be understood scientifically. Prajapati descending to the polar aspects Prana and Rayi or Surya and Chandra is in fact the description of the breathing process and its correlation with the Surya and Chandra. Denuded of the cryptic terminology and symbolism, our breath or self (any name may be ascribed like Atma/Consciousness) is the Prajapati that manifests as polar opposites to make creation possible. Further proof for this assertion is available in the following mantras.

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