Aura

Following fable, an old Vedic story about Prana to be found in various Upanishads, reflects on the ordinary human state in which the different faculties are not integrated and therefore fight with each other, competing for attention.

The five main faculties of human nature – speech, eye, ear, mind, and breath (prana) – were arguing with each other as to which one of them was the best and most important. To resolve their dispute they decided that each would leave the body and see whose absence was most missed.

1. First speech left the body but the body continued though mute.
2. Next the eye left but the body continued though blind.
3. Next the ear left but the body continued though deaf.
4. When the mind left but the body continued though unconscious.
5. Finally the prana began to leave and the body began to die and all the other faculties began to lose their energy.

So they all rushed to Prana and told it to stay, lauding its supremacy.
Clearly Prana won the argument. Prana gives energy to all our faculties, without which they cannot function. Without honoring Prana first, there is nothing else we can do, and no energy with which to do anything.

Source: Derived from Dr. David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri), The Secret of Prana, Dharma Bhasha