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PRASHNA UPNISHAD 711
8. The sun verily rises in the form of outer prana giving
life to the creatures, by which the eyes get life, viz., sight.
The
earth's divinity attracts and aids one's
apana
(which functions
in the rectum and penis). the ether attracts and aids one's
samana,
while the
vayu
(air) attracts and aids one's
vyava
(by which one
is able to do all actions through the body).
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9. Verily
teja
(fire of energy) is
udana (—a
kind of prana
by which energy, strength and valour is produced in the body),
When this
teja
is last, the man dies and the soul along with
the
mind
and the fiva subtle senses (not the physical outward parts)
take rebirth by entering a new body.
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10. On death, the soul, according to its good or bad
nature
or
desires impressed upon it, takes rebirth in another body
along with the mind and the
prana
endowed with fire of energy
which leads the soul accordingly,
i.e.,
the world of his last de-
sire or imaginings.
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11. Whosever wise and learned man rightly know
the
prana,
as stated above, his progeny does not deteriorate and
he