The Householder --- Part 2

Now let us look the entire universe.  The prapancha.

We look at a simple daily activity, that we are ignoring, which is the sun.

The sun is the source of all energy for the earth and its living beings, and its our father and mother both.

Without the suns energy, no living being will have what we call as 'shakti'.

If a man stays hungry for one day, he is unable to get up and walk.
She is unable to do basic activities.

This is how much we are dependent upon food, for our sustenance, and for every action that we perform. This food is what gets converted into energy within our bodies.

Our body , the human body is an intelligent coming together of various functions or organs, and all of  us might have studied in biology, how the food is intaked and the oxygen that we breathe, converts the food into energy. This energy is nothing but a force, a certain life force, which we call in sanskrit as prAna. PrAna shakti is required for the human body to sustain and survive, and hence it is very essential that we pay attention to this prAna.

The same prAna shakti is looked at in a five fold manner.

a. PrAna  or incoming oxygen

b. ApAna the energy that leads to excretion of all unwanted waste

c. vyAna all the nerves of the body responsible to communicate within all organs and body parts

 d. samAna the vayu responsible for digestion and converting food into energy and transmitting through the body

e. udAna is what leaves the body after one passes away

This prAna shakti is maintained by proper eating, drinking water, and proper activity that does not harm the pranic system.

Here also there is so much knowledge involved, knowledge of what to eat, how to eat, that one has to take bath, that one has to exercise, and so on.

These are knowledge, all knowledge.

There is intelligence here, there is order, in ones life.