1. Here (with regard to obtaining Hiranyagarbha) there are these
Slokas:
2. The fivefold body into which the indestructible (prâna, breath)
enters, that body which the harnessed horses (the senses) draw about,
that body where the true of the true (the highest Brahman) follows
after, in that body (of the worshipper) all gods become one.
3. That body into which goes the indestructible (the breath) which
we have joined (in meditation), proceeding from the indestructible (the
highest Brahman), that body which the harnessed horses (the senses)
draw about, that body where the true of the true follows after, in that
body all gods become one.
4. After separating themselves from the Yes and No of language, and
of all that is hard and cruel, poets have discovered (what they sought
for); dependent on names they rejoiced in what had been revealed.
5. That in which the poets rejoiced (the revealed nature of prâna,
breath), in it the gods exist all joined together. Having driven away
evil by means of that Brahman (which is hidden in prâna), the
enlightened man goes to the Svarga world (becomes one with
Hiranyagarbha, the universal spirit).
6. No one wishing to describe him (prâna, breath) by speech,
describes him by calling him “woman,” “neither woman nor man,” or “man”
(all such names applying only to the material body, and not to prâna or
breath).
7. Brahman (as hidden beneath prâna) is called the A; and the I
(ego) is gone there (the worshipper should know that he is uktha and
prâna).
8. This becomes perfect as a thousand of Brihatî verses, and of that
hymn, perfect with a thousand Brihatî verses, there are 36,000
syllables. So many are also the thousands of days of human life. By
means of the syllable of life (the a) alone (which is contained in that
thousand of hymns) does a man obtain the day of life (the mahâvrata
day, which completes the number of the days in the Gavamayana
sacrifice), and by means of the day of life (he obtains) the syllable
of life.
9. Now there is a chariot of the god (prâna) destroying all desires
(for the worlds of Indra, the moon, the earth, all of which lie below
the place of Hiranyagarbha). Its front part (the point of the two
shafts of the carriage where the yoke is fastened) is speech, its
wheels the ears, the horses the eyes, the driver the mind. Prâna
(breath) mounts that chariot (and on it, i.e. by means of meditating
on Prâna, he reaches Hiranyagarbha).
10. This has been said by a Rishi (Rv. X, 39, 12):—
11. “Come hither on that which is quicker than mind,” and (Rv.VIII,
73, 2) “Come hither on that which is quicker than the twinkling of an
eye,” yea, the twinkling of an eye.
