Upanishads

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 Prashna Upanishad states that Prana (breath, spirit) is the most essential and powerful of all, because without it all other deities cannot survive in a creature, they exist only when Prana is present.

sensory organs) inside man withdraw and become one in Manas (mind) when he sleeps.

  

 Prana (breath, life-force) does not sleep, 

the mind works due to the food stored in the body and air provided by breath .

 Dream is a form of enjoyment for the mind, where it reconfigures and experiences again, in new ways,

 what it has seen before, either recently or in past, either this life or another birth, 

whether true or untrue  

 heard or unheard,

 pleasant or unpleasant.

 In dream, mind beholds all.

In deep sleep impressions end and the mind too sleeps 

this is the complete state of mind relaxation, of body happiness.

 It is then when everything in a person retires into Atman-Brahman, including

Sight hearing smell taste touch Speech ,mind , thought ,reason self-consciousness , insight and life-force 

happiness and bliss is the established calm state of knowing and dwelling in the Atman, the spiritual state of truth, beauty and goodness.b

one meditates to know "Self" (Atman-Brahman), 

 there are three levels of Atma (Self) knowledge, the lowest level leads to a quick rebirth, but with ethical strengths and consequent greatness.

 The intermediate level of self-knowledge leads to ethical behavior and the world of Manas (moon, mind), 

The jiva first enjoys the heavenly life and thereafter is reborn .

meditation on all aspects of self, leads to liberation from all suffering, sin and fears

Such a soul "beholds the Self as universal, pervading in allcreatures, and eternal".