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Pravahana Jaivali was the philosopher King of Panchala who appears in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (Vi.ii.9-13) and the Chandogya Upanishad (V.4-8). He teaches Svetaketu, son of [[Aruni|Uddalaka Aruni] who was a disciple of Dhaumya Ayoda (Mahabharata I.iii.20), his celebrated Pancagni Vidya i.e. the "Doctrine of the Five Fires" that explains the process of re-birth, which is an upasana. This doctrine is in answer to the five questions of the King. [1] And, thus taught the 'two-path doctrine of transmigration', which knowledge had never been in possession the Brahmins.[2]
Pravahana Jaivali, who was well-versed in udgitha, held that the Universe exhibits at every stage the principle of sacrifice in as much as the heaven by itself is a great altar in which the sun is burning as fuel from the oblation that is offered in this sacrifice, namely shraddha, rises the Moon; looking at the sky again it is seen that parjanya is the great altar in which the year is burning as fuel from the oblation offered in this sacrifice, namely the Moon, rises Rain; then again the whole world is a great altar in which the earth burns as fuel from the oblation offered in this sacrifice, namely Rain, rises Food; man himself is a great altar in which the opened mouth is the fuel from the oblation offered in his sacrifice , namely Food, rises Seed; and finally woman herself is a great altar in which Seed being offered as an oblation, rises Man. This is his celebrated "Doctrine of the Five Fires".[3] In the Kaushitaki Upanishad Version, this knowledge is imparted by King Citra Gangayayani (Gargyayani), in which version the emphasis is on the ignorance of Gautama Uddalaka rather than on the arrogance of the proud and impetuous Svetaketu who was proud of his learning.[4] From the Chandogya Upanishad it is known that Pravahana Jaivali had speculated that 'space' (Akasha) is the final habitat of all things.[5]
References
- ^ Cyriac Muppathyil. Meditation as a path to god-realization. Gregorian Biblical Bookshop. p. 40.
- ^ Gananath Obeyesekere. Imagining Karma. University of California Press. p. 10.
- ^ R.D.Ranade. A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. pp. 32, 183.
- ^ Patrick Olevelle. [art_young_svetaketu.pdf "Young Svetaketu"] (PDF).
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ Introduction to Indian Mysticism. Genesis Publishing. p. 238.