Sanskrit · Devanagari
अहं वैश्वानरो भूत्वा प्राणिनां देहमाश्रितः। प्राणापानसमायुक्तः पचाम्यन्नं चतुर्विधम् ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
ahaṃ vaiśvānaro bhūtvā prāṇināṃ dehamāśritaḥ prāṇāpānasamāyuktaḥ pacāmyannaṃ caturvidham
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882I becoming the fire
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।15.14।। -- अहमेव वैश्वानरः उदरस्थः अग्निः भूत्वा -- अयमग्निर्वैश्वानरो योऽयमन्तः पुरुषे येनेदमन्नं पच्यते (बृ0 उ0 5।9।1) इत्यादिश्रुतेः वैश्वानरः सन् प्राणिनां प्राणवतां देहम् आश्रितः प्रविष्टः प्राणापानसमायुक्तः प्राणापानाभ्यां समायुक्तः संयुक्तः पचामि पक्तिं करोमि अन्नम् अशनं चतुर्विधं चतुष्प्रकारं भोज्यं भक्ष्यं चोष्यं लेह्यं च। भोक्ता वैश्वानरः अग्निः? अग्नेः भोज्यम् अन्नं सोमः? तदेतत् उभयम् अग्नीषोमौ सर्वम् इति पश्यतः अन्नदोषलेपः न भवति।।किं च --,
4ab9d35e2397…Rāmānuja
15.14 Becoming the 'digestive fire', or the fire of digestion, I function within the bodies of all living creatures. In union with various activities of 'inward and outward breaths', I digest the 'four kinds of food' eaten by individuals. These consist of foods to be chewed, sucked, licked and drunk. The Supreme Person who has the Soma, digestive fire etc., as his glory (Vibhuti) is here eated with Him by means of co-ordinate predication in the verses 'Becoming the juicy Soma' and 'Becoming the digestive fire'. He now sets forth the reason for eating these glories with Himself.
b6ec8597ca19…Swami Sivananda
15.14 अहम् I? वैश्वानरः (the fire) Vaisvanara? भूत्वा having become? प्राणिनाम् of living beings? देहम् the body? आश्रितः abiding? प्राणापानसमायुक्तः associated with Prana and Apana? पचामि (I) digest? अन्नम् food? चतुर्विधम् fourfold.Commentary The immanence of the Lord as the gastric fire in all living beings is described in this verse.Vaisvanara The fire that abides in the stomach. This fire is fanned by the bellows of the incoming and the outgoing breaths continuously and large antities of food are digested. Inside the wonderful laboratory of the stomach I digest the food by taking the form of this gastric fire.Four kinds of food (1) Food which has to be eaten by mastication (Bhakshyam). (2) That which has to be sucked in (Bhojyam). (3) That which has to be licked (Lehyam). (4) That which has to be devoured or swallowed (Choshyam). Another classification is as follows (1) Rice is PrithiviAnnam (solid food) for human beings. (2) Water is Apyannam (watery food) for birds like the Chataka. (3) Fire is Tejasannam (hot food) for certain creatures. (4) Air is Vayvannam (air as food) for serpents.अयमग्निर्वैश्वानरो योऽयमन्तः पुरुषः येनेदमन्नं पच्यते।।This fire which is within man and by which the food is digested is Vaisvanara. (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 5.9.1)He who thinks or meditates and feels that the Vaisvanara fire is the eater? that the food eaten by the fire is the Soma (moon) and that the two together form AgniSoma is not contaminated by the impurities in the food. He who meditates before he takes his food that the whole world which is in the form of eater and eaten is made up of Agni and Soma? is not tainted by the evil arising from eating bad food.Repeat this verse daily before you take your food. You will be free from all taints of impurity in food.
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