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The Pranas.
RE-BIRTH AND KARMA-SARIRA.
(a) Prån or the inhaling power which moves the lungs.
(6) Apån or the exhaling power manifest in throwing out foreign and effetë matter from the system.
(c) Samån or the digestive and distributive energy in the system.
(d) Udân—is the power of speech. It also helps to the descent of foodstuff through the alimentary canal to the stomach. And lastly,
(e) Vyân-is the energy which sustains the body and galvanizes its parts into life and vigour thus protecting it from putrefaction.
Now these organic energies which are but functional activities of one and the same Power-called Mukhya-Prån or the Primal Physical Energy along with the five elemental rudiments of the nutritious vesture, bearing the impress of desires, experiences, and ideas formed in the past, make up the sukshmasarira of the Hindu philosophers that passes from body to body through the various grades of sansår according to the merits and demerits of the embodied soul.
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