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never suffers thirst for enjoyment of the objects through senses. Such state of Bhūtātmā helps the soul to move up from the enviornment of earth i.e. Bhūmandala after death and his space travel starts. So the soul is known as Preta after death, as it moves upwards.
We experience the mental state of the soul in dream where we enjoy the physically absent objects through organs. In this state soul is known as Mahān Ātmā. This state is called Tejasa. Mind is incarmation of the moon or Soma. The luner element associated with soul makes him to have such mental experience. Here the soul is S'raddhāmaya associated with the watery elements of Soma. In this state the luner elements make the soul thinking the objects near to the soul. So the state of the soul is called Tejasa. This psychic stage leads the person in dream to believe that even idea of the things before the soul can be experienced. This luner element keeps the soul to experience. This luner element keeps the soul, associated with the effects of the worldly experiences. But predominant lunner elements leads the soul to the luner path or space travel of the soul to the moon. This is known as Krnsagati of Gita, Arcirādi mārga of the upanisads and Pitryāma of the vedas. The Purānas have elaborated this space travel very clearly. We shall try to understand it clearly later on in accordance with it.
In third satage the soul is known as Prāna. This state is concerned with the soul known as Ksetrajña. In this state soul does not have wordly and mental experience. He withdraws himself from the physical world as well as mental one. He enjoys sweet sleep. But after awakening he thinks, I have enjoyed sound and dreamless sleep. So the soul is the witness of the experience. This is suşupti state of the soul. In this state he is known as Ksętrajña having solar element predominent. Thus after death the soul gets rid of the natural surroundings of the earth and moves upwards due to the luner and solar prelominent elements concerned with Vāyu and sun. Here in this state he leaves aside the element of earth in much proportion but not completely. So it becomes difficult for himself to move upward.
As soul is a part and partical of the Bhūtātmā he is known as Vaisvanara. In all these three states he is known as sun, Vāyu and Agni residing in Dyuloka, Candraloka (Lunner region)and Bhūloka region of the earth.
The Garbhopanisad says that air makes the sukra (the Semen) and S'onita interningled in the form of a bubble and air assumed the form of five vital air namely Prāna, Apāna, Vyāna, Udāna and Samāna. Prāna is the result of Sun the
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