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not increase or decrease with the increase or decrease of the Prân or Apân. On the other hand the contrary is the case as may be seen at the time of the death of a man when the Prân and Apân are so much in play while the knowledge or consciousness is reduced to a zero. If you say that the increase of the Prân and Apân at the time of death is due to the humours of the wind and biliousness &c. which vitiate the body and do not allow consciousnes to come into play, This statement is incorrect. If this is so a dead man ought to be alive because after the death the humours of the wind and biliousness &c. disappear and the body is also free from fever and other diseases and the absence of these ailments means health. Since the body is healthy in such a state it ought to be alive. If this is not so then the body is not the cause of consciousness, and it has not any relation of cause and effect with the mind. If a dead man were to get alive we would believe the body to be the cause of consciousness.
