Subala Upanishad 4.p1

4.p1

hṛdayasya madhye lohitaṃ māṃsapiṇḍaṃ yasmiṃstaddaharaṃ puṇḍarīkaṃ kumudamivānekadhā vikasitaṃ hṛdayasya daśa chidrāṇi bhavanti yeṣu prāṇāḥ pratiṣṭhitāḥ sa yadā prāṇena saha saṃyujyate tadā paśyati nadyo nagarāṇi bahūni vividhāni ca yadā vyānena saha saṃyujyate tadā paśyati devāṃśca ṛṣīṃśca yadāpānena saha saṃyujyate tadā paśyati yakṣarākṣasagandharvānyadā udānena saha saṃyujyate tadā paśyati devalokāndevānskandaṃ jayantaṃ ceti yadā samānena saha saṃyujyate tadā paśyati devalokāndhanāni ca yadā vairambheṇa saha saṃyujyate tadā paśyati dṛṣṭaṃ ca śrutaṃ ca bhuktaṃ cābhuktaṃ ca saccāsacca sarvaṃ paśyati athemā daśa daśa nāḍyo bhavanti tāsāmekaikasya dvāsaptatirdvāsaptatiḥ śākhā nāḍīsahasrāṇi bhavanti yasminnayamātmā svapiti śabdānāṃ ca karotyatha yaddvitīye saṅkośe svapiti tademaṃ ca lokaṃ paraṃ ca lokaṃ paśyati sarvāñchabdānvijānāti sa samprasāda ityācakṣate prāṇaḥ śarīraṃ parirakṣati haritasya nīlasya pītasya lohitasya śvetasya nāḍyo rudhirasya pūrṇā athātraitaddaharaṃ puṇḍarīkaṃ kumudamivānekadhā vikasitaṃ yathā keśaḥ sahasradhā bhinnastathā hitā nāma nāḍyo bhavanti hṛdyākāśe pare kośe divyo'yamātmā svapiti yatra supto na kañcana kāmaṃ kāmayate na kañcana svapnaṃ paśyati na tatra devā na devalokā yajñā na yajñā vā na mātā na pitā na bandhurna bāndhavo na steno na brahmahā tejaskāyamamṛtaṃ salila evedaṃ salilaṃ vanaṃ bhūyastenaiva mārgeṇa jāgrāya dhāvati samrāḍiti hovāca ||

"In the middle of the heart is a red fleshy mass in which is the ḍahara-lotus. Like the lotus, it opens into many (petals). There are ten openings in the heart. The (different kinds of) prāṇas are located there. Whenever he (Āṭmā) is united with prāṇa, he sees cities with rivers and other variegated things; when united with vyāna, he sees Ḍevas and Ṛshis; when united with apāna, he sees Yakshas, Rākshasas and Ganḍharvas; when united with udāna, he perceives the celestial world, Ḍevas, Skanḍa (Kārṭikeya or the six-faced Mars), and Jayanṭa (Inḍra's son); when united with samāna, he sees the celestial world and the treasures (of Kubera); when united with rambhā (a nādi hereafter given out), he sees whatever is seen or not seen, heard or not heard, eaten or not eaten, asaṭ or Saṭ and all else.

"There are ten midis; in each of these are seventy-one. And these become 72,000 branch nādis. When Āṭmā sleeps therein, it produces sound; but when Āṭmā sleeps in the second kośa (or sheath) then it sees this world and the higher as also knows all the sounds. This is spoken of as samprasāḍa (deep sleep rest). Then prāṇa protects the body. The nādis are full of blood, of the colours green, blue, yellow, red, and white. Now this ḍahara-lotus has many petals like a lily. Like a hair divided into 1,000 parts, the nādis called hiṭa are. The divine Āṭmā sleeps in the ākāś of the heart, in the supreme kośa (or ānanḍamaya sheath); sleeping there, it has no desires, no dreams, no ḍeva-worlds, no yajñas or sacrificer, no mother or father, no relative, no kinsman, no thief, or no Brahman-slayer. Its body is ṭejas (resplendent effulgence) and of the nature of nectar (or the immortal). It is as if in sport, a water-lotus. When he returns again to the waking state by the same way (he quitted or went in before to the heart), he is Samrāt. Thus says he."