" Physical Nature of the mind, prana, speech and How the mind consists of food."

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Chapter VI — The Physical Nature of the Mind, the Prana  and Speech 

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1.   "That, my dear, which is the subtlest part of curds rises, when  they are churned and becomes butter. 

 

2.   "In the same manner, my dear, that which is the subtlest part of  the food that is eaten rises and becomes mind. 

 

3.   "The subtlest part of the water that is drunk rises and becomes  prana. 

 

4.   "The subtlest part of the fire that is eaten rises and becomes  speech. 

 

5.   "Thus, my dear, the mind consists of food, the prana consists of  water and speech consists of fire."  "Please, venerable Sir, instruct me further."  "So be it, my dear"  

 

 

 Chapter VII — How the Mind consists of Food

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1.   "A person, my dear, consists of sixteen parts. Do not eat any  food for fifteen days, but drink as much water as you like.  Since the prana consists of water, it will not be cut off if you  drink water." 

 

2.   Svetaketu did not eat any food for fifteen days. Then he came  to his father and said: "What, Sir, shall I recite?"  His father said: "The Rik, Yagus and Saman verses."  He replied: "They do not occur to me, Sir." 

 

3.   His father said to him: "Just as, my dear, of a great blazing fire  a single coal, the size of a firefly, may be left, which would not  burn much more than that, even so, my dear, of your sixteen  parts only one part is left; and therefore with that one part you  do not remember the Vedas. Now go and eat and you will  understand me." 

 

4.   Svetaketu ate and approached his father. Then whatever his  father asked him, he showed that he knew it.  

 

 5—6.   Then his father said to him: "Just as, my dear, of a great lighted  fire a single coal the size of a firefly, if left, may be made to  blaze up again by adding grass to it and will thus burn much  more,  "Even so, my dear; of your sixteen parts only one part was left  and that, when strengthened by food, blazed up. With it you  now remember the Vedas. Therefore, my dear, the mind  consists of food, the prana consists of water and speech consists  of fire."  After that he understood what his father said, yea, he  understood it.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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