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अध्याय-५
cause of activity elsewhere. For instance, the wind is endowed with activity and touch, and it is naturally the cause of the wafting of plants and trees. But the invisible force (adrsta) mentioned above is quite different from it, and hence it cannot be the cause of activity. The soul with the destruction-cum-subsidence (kşayopaśama) of energy-obstructing (vīryāntarāya) and knowledge-obscuring jñānāvaraṇa) karmas, and on the rise of physique-making karma (nāmakarma) of limbs and minor limbs (angopanga), exhales air from the lungs; it is called the breath-of-life (prāna). The same soul inhales air from the atmosphere; it is called the breath-of-inhalation (apāna). These, the breath-of-life (prāna) and the breath-of-inhalation (apāna), also are helpful to the soul, as these enable it to live. The three - the mind, the breath-of-life (prāna) and the breath-of-inhalation (apāna) - must be understood to be material. How? These meet with resistance, etc., by material objects. The mind stops functioning by thunderbolt, etc., which strike terror in the hearts of the living beings. It is also overpowered by intoxicating liquor, etc. Respiration is obstructed by covering the face with the palm or the cloth. It is also subjugated by phlegm. But a non-material substance cannot be obstructed or subjugated by material objects. It is from this that the existence of the soul is proved. Just as the motion of a puppet equipped with mechanical contrivances for moving the limbs signifies the agent who directs the motion, so also the activities, such as inhalation and exhalation, prove the existence of the active soul.
Are these alone the help rendered by forms of matter (pudgala)? Or is there anything else?
सुखदुःखजीवितमरणोपग्रहाश्च ॥२०॥
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