The 21st PanchAti Text
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tasmin rAjAnam
adhiviSrEyamamiti
tE asmai sarvE
KaSyapAjjyOtir labahntE
tAnn Soma: Kasyapaat
adhinirdhamati
brastAkarma
lrudhivaivam
prANO
jeevAneendhriyajeevAni
sapta SeershaNyA:
prANA:
SooryA ityAchAryA:
apaSya mahamEtAn
sapta sooryAniti
panchakarNO
vAtsyAyana:
sapta karNasccha
plAshi:
21st Mantram: Word
by word Meaning:
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tasmin imam rAjAnam
ativiSrayaiti=
In that (tasmin) there is a mantram that prays for
positioning the UpAsakan( imam) in a
radiant ( rAjAnam) and high position ( ativiSraya) .
te sarvE asmai
KasyapAt jyOti: labantE=AarOgan and the other six
Sooryans(tE sarvE) get their( labanti) lustre (jyOti)
from Kasyapar( asmai
KasyapAt) for the welfare of the world and
its beings .
tAnn Soma: KasyapAt
prastAkarmakrut iva yEvam adhinirdhamati=Soma
devan
thru the power of Kasyapar ( KasyapAt) enhances (adhinirdhamati) their (the seven Sooryans) jyOti like the bellows
growing the fire( PrastAkarmakrut
iva).
PrANa: JeevAni
indhriya jeevAni sapta SeershNyA: prANA: SooryA: iti AchAryA: = AchAryAs say that the seven SooryAs ( Sapta SooryA:) are the same as
the seven PrANa Vaayus residing in the seven orifices of the head ( SeershNyA: PrANA:)
known also as the
JeevAtAra saktis or Indhriya saktis
.
yEtAn sapta SooryAn
aham apaSyam iti
VaatsyAyana:
PanchakarNa: PlAkshi sapta KarNasccha =The two
rishis,Sage Vatsa's son ( VaatsyAyana:), Pancha KarNa rishi and
Sage Plakshar's son ,
Sapta KarNa Rishi declare :
" I have seen these seven SooryAs ( yEtAn aham
sapta SooryAn apaSyam) ".
Notes:
(1) PraNan moves around the seven
orifices ( Mouth , two holes associated with the nose,two ears
and two eyes). These are the saptha PrANAs or saptha
Sooryans.
2) Prutvee,Appu,tEyu,Vaayu,
AkASam,
Mahath and ahankAram are the
seven Tattvams and the power behind these seven Sooryans
.
3) The Five Jn~Endhriyams along
with manas and Buddhi also make up another set of seven
.
MuNDaka Upanishad passage (2.1.3)
explains the Veda Rahasyam of One Tattvam splititng into seven and
spreading itself in the context of Seven PrANans and seven Sooryans
:
Sapta PrANA:
prabhavanti tasmAt saptArhcisha: samidha: sapta hOmA (
jihvA:)
sapta imE lOkA yEshu
charanti orANA
guhASayA
nihitA: sapta sapta
( Meaning
according to Dr.NSA Swamy): From that Akshara Purusha emerge the seven
sense organs , the seven fires, the sacrificial fuel , and the seven
flames , and the seven worlds in which move the sense organs that
are deposited ( by the creator) in groups of seven and seven .
SrI Veda PurushAya nama:
Dhaasan , Oppiliappan Koil VaradAchAri Sadagopan
M,
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