Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad 3.2

3.2.1

sa hovāca prāṇo 'smi prajñātmā /

2. Then he said: ‘I am the breathing spirit (_prāṇa_), the intelligential self (_prajñātman_). As such (_tam_), reverence me as life (_āyus_), as immortality. Life is the breathing spirit. The breathing spirit, verily, is life. The breathing spirit, indeed, is immortality. For, as long as the breathing spirit remains in this body, so long is there life. For indeed, with the breathing spirit in this world one obtains immortality; with intelligence, true conception (_saṃkalpa_).

3.2.2

taṃ mām āyur amṛtam ity upāssva /

3.2.3

āyuḥ prāṇaḥ /

3.2.4

prāṇo vā āyuḥ /

3.2.5

yāvad dhy asmiñ charīre prāṇo vasati tāvad āyuḥ /

3.2.6

prāṇena hy evāsmiṃl loke 'mṛtatvam āpnoti /

3.2.7

prajñayā satyaṃ saṅkalpam /

3.2.8

sa yo mām āyur amṛtam ity upāste sarvam āyur asmiṃl loka eti /

So he who reverences me as life, as immortality, reaches the full term of life in this world; he obtains immortality, indestructibility (_akṣiti_) in the heavenly world (_svarga-loka_).’

3.2.9

āpnoty amṛtatvam akṣitiṃ svarge loke /

3.2.10

tad dhaika āhur ekabhūyaṃ vai prāṇā gacchantīti /

Now on this point some say: ‘The vital breaths (_prāṇa_), verily, go into a unity, for’—so they say (_iti_)—‘[otherwise] no one would be able at once to cause to know a name with speech, a form with the eye, a sound with the ear, a thought with the mind. As a unity, verily, the vital breaths, every single one, cause to know all things here. All the vital breaths speak along with speech when it speaks. All the vital breaths see along with the eye when it sees. All the vital breaths hear along with the ear when it hears. All the vital breaths think along with the mind when it thinks. All the vital breaths breathe along with breath (_prāṇa_) when it breathes.’ ‘That is indeed so,’ said Indra. ‘There is, however,’ he continued (_iti_), ‘a superior excellence among the vital breaths.

3.2.11

na hi kaścana śaknuyāt sakṛd vācā nāma prajñāpayituṃ cakṣuṣā rūpaṃ śrotreṇa śabdaṃ manasā dhyānam /

3.2.12

ekabhūyaṃ vai prāṇā bhūtvaikaikam etāni sarvāṇi prajñāpayantīti /

3.2.13

vācaṃ vadantīṃ sarve prāṇā anuvadanti /

3.2.14

cakṣuḥ paśyat sarve prāṇā anupaśyanti /śrotraṃ śṛṇvat sarve prāṇā anuśṛṇvanti /

3.2.15

mano dhyāyat sarve prāṇā anudhyāyanti /

3.2.16

prāṇaṃ prāṇantaṃ sarve prāṇā anuprāṇanti /

3.2.17

evam u haitad iti hendra uvāca /

3.2.18

asti tv eva prāṇānāṃ niḥśreyasam iti //2//