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ANUGITA
cold, in consequence of water! As the compact association of the five elements is broken up, the wind in the body, distributed within the five elements, between the upward and downward life-winds, being aggravated by cold, and urged by a sharp wind', goes upwards *, abandoning the embodied (self) in consequence of pain. Thus it" leaves the body, which appears devoid of breath. Then devoid of warmth, devoid of breath, devoid of beauty, and with consciousness destroyed, the man, being abandoned by the Brahman”, is said to be dead. (Then) he ceases to perceive (anything) with those very currents ? with which the supporter of the body perceives objects of sense. In the same way, it is the eternal soul which preserves in the body the life-winds which are produced from food! Whatever (part of the body) is employed in the collection 10 of that, know
Having spoken of heat, he now speaks of the effects of cold. I am not sure if the water here refers to the water of the juicy' substances before referred to.
* This means, I presume, within the dissolving body. Cf. Maitriupanishad, p. 42. See note 4, last page.
To the head, Arguna Misra. "That is, the wind, I suppose, and then the breath departs from the body, and the man is said to die. "Devoid of beauty,' further on, means, disfigured in the state of death.
• I.e. the mind, Arguna Misra. * The senses. Cl. Svetâsvatara, p. 288. * See and cf. p. 262 infra.
· This, says Arguna Misra, is in answer to the possible question why this sharp wind' does not work with the life-winds. The answer is, that such working requires the presence of the soul, which Arguna Misra says here means 'mind.' As to production from food,' cf. K'handogya, p. 421 seq., and Taittiriya Aranyaka, p. 893.
"• Collection of that = turning the food into semen, says Arguna Misra, who adds, 'in those viial parts, which are useful for this purpose, the lise-wind dwells.'
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