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of one another's qualities!. All are greatest in their · own spheres, and all support one another. There is one unmoving? (life-wind). There are others moving about, (which are five, owing to (their) specific qualities. My own self is one only., (but) accumulated in numerous (forms). Being friendly with one another, and pleasing one another, go away happily. Welfare be to you! Support one another.'
Chapter IX.
The Brâhmana said: On this, too, they relate this ancient story, a dialogue between Närada and the sage Devamata.
Devamata said : When a creature is about to be born, what comes into existence first, his Prâna, or Apâna, or Samana, or Vyâna, or else Udâna ?
Nárada said: By whichever the creature is produced, that which is other than this first comes to him. And the pairs of the life-winds should be understood, which (move) upwards, or downwards, or transversely.
This is not quite clear. I presume it means that each one has the generic qualities which make the others great in their own spheres; but the specific qualities are different.
"The one life-wind is supposed here to be generally unmoving. but its distribution among the different parts of the body as spe. cified, for instance, in the commentary on the Yoga-stra III, 38, gives it the different names. The expression docs not secm to be quite accurate for this, which nevertheless seems to be the true, sense.
• Another reading is. . That one is my own sell.' CI. Maiiri, pp. 28 sec., 105, and Brihadåranyaka, p. 169.
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