Hindu Medicine c8.65
Hindu Medicine c8.65
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c8.65
Like the swan, prāṇa as the life-giving principle is intra-mundane, dwelling in the universe and its beings, while as the supernal source of universal energy it is supra-mundane. But unlike the bird with which it is compared, the swan-like prāṇa never withdraws both its feet from the “watery” realm of the macrocosm and microcosm which it is animating; should it do so, life would cease to exist.