I adjure you, O Fevers of every sort, whether rife in the autumn or monsoon or summer, intermittent or continuous, shivering or burning, depart and vanish!
Atharva Veda V, 22, 13
The organ of speech departed. After being away for a whole year, it came back and said: How have you been able to live without me? The other organs replied: We lived just as dumb people live, without speaking, but breathing with the prana (nose), seeing with the eye, hearing with the ear and thinking with the mind. Then the organ of speech entered the body.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad V, I – The Supremacy of the Prana, 8
The eye departed. After being away for a whole year, it came back and said: How have you been able to live without me? The other organs replied: We lived just as blind people live, without seeing, but breathing with the prana, speaking with the tongue, hearing with the ear and thinking with the mind. Then the eye entered the body.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad V, I – The Supremacy of the Prana, 9
The ear went out. After being away for a whole year, it came back and said: How have you been able to live without me? The other organs replied: We lived just as deaf people live, without hearing, but breathing with the prana. Speaking with the tongue, seeing with the eye and thinking with the mind. Then the ear entered the body.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad V, I – The Supremacy of the Prana, 10
The mind went out. After being away for a whole year, it came back and said: How have you been able to live without me? The other organs replied: We lived just like children whose minds are not yet formed, without thinking with the mind, but breathing with the prana, speaking with the tongue, seeing with the eye and hearing with the ear. Then the mind entered the body.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad V, I – The Supremacy of the Prana, 11
