Agni

Then dividing himself fivefold, he is called Prana, Apana, Samana, Udana, Vyana.

now that air which rises upwards is prana that which moves downwards is apana that by which these two are supposed to be held is that which carries the grosser material of food to the apana and brings the subtler material to each limb has the name samana after these prana apana samana comes the work of vyana and between them the prana apana and samana on one side and the vyana on the other comes the rising of the udana that which brings up or carries down what has been drunk and eaten is the udana now the upamsu vessel or prana depends on the antriyama vessel apana and the antriyama vessel apana on the upamsu vessel prana and between these two the self-resplendent self-produced heat This heat is the Purusha, person, and this Purusha is Agni Visvanara.

And thus it is said elsewhere, Agni Visvanara is the fire within man by which the food that is eaten is cooked, that is digested.

Its noise is what one hears if one covers one's ears.

when a man is on the point of departing this life he does not hear that noise now he having divided himself fivefold is hidden in a secret place buddhi assuming the nature of mind having the pranas as his body resplendent having true concepts and free like itha Feeling even thus that he has not attained his object, he thinks from within the interior of the heart, let me enjoy objects.

What thou hast said has been properly laid up in our mind.

Now answer us a further question.

Agni, Vayu, Aditya, Time, Kala, which is breath, Prana, food, Anna, Brahma, Rudra, Vishnu, thus do some meditate on one, some on another.

Verily, the shining sun is the asvamedha sacrifice, and his body is the ear.

Agni is the sacrificial fire, arka, and these worlds are his bodies.

These two are the sacrificial fire and the asvamedha sacrifice, and they are again one deity, namely, death.

He who knows this overcomes another death.

That deity, after having taken away the evil of those deities, namely death, carried them beyond death.

He carried speech across first.

When speech had become freed from death, it became what it had been before, Agni, fire.

That Agni, after having stepped beyond death, shines.

The Prastava, these three worlds.

The Yudgita, Agni, fire, Vayu, air, and Aditya, sun.

The Pratihara, the stars.

The birds, under rays.

His rule is, let him meditate on the salmon, knowing that he is everything.

Yeah, that he is everything.

22nd Kanda The Yudhgita, of which a poet said, I choose the deep-sounding note of the salmon as good for cattle, belongs to Agni.

The indefinite note belongs to Prajapati, the definite note to Soma, the soft and smooth note to Vayu, the smooth and strong note to Indra, the heron-like note to Brihaspati, the dull note to Varuna.