Hindu Medicine c8.63

c8.63

Its paramount strength is extolled in terms of solar symbolism; it is compared in power to the eight-wheeled chariot of the sun, to the wheel of the sun-disk with its single rim; like the solar force, worshipped elsewhere as representing the supreme principle, prāṇa is of a twofold character, being intra-mundane and supra-mundane at once (22); like everything else, it manifests itself with one half of its strength, while the other half of its essence abides beyond, inscrutable, not to be ascertained by any sign, in the transcendent sphere, wherefrom the universe proceeds.