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NINE UPNISHADS
five parts, so that
apana
remains and functions in the anus and
the pendis,
prana
itself remains and functions in the mouth,
nose, eyes and ears;
samana
remains and functions in the centre
(naval), distributing the food product (after being digested) to
all the parts of the body; from this seven fires are born (nouri-
shing the two eyes, two ears, two holes of the nose and the
mouth).
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6. The
soul abides in the heart in which there are one hun-
dred and one arteries each
of
which has again one hundred
branchrs and each such branch has again seventy two thousand
smaller sub-branches; and the
vyana
prana moves through all
these.
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7. Out of these many arteries there is one artery called
sushumna
through which the soul moves by
udana
(a kind of
prana) upwards and from there goes out of the body to diffe-
rent places (through different wombs), heaven, hell or world
of
men according to its good, bad and mixed deeds respectively.
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