{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe38/sbe38079.htm","path":"hin/sbe38/sbe38079.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe38/sbe38079.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana, Commentary by Sankara (SBE38), tr. by George Thibaut [1896]\n3. And on account of the going of the pr\u00e2nas.\nScripture states that, when a new body is obtained, the pr\u00e2nas also go (from the old body to the new one). Cp. 'When he thus departs the (chief) pr\u00e2na departs after him, and when the pr\u00e2na thus departs all the other pr\u00e2nas depart after it' (Bri. Up. IV, 4, 2), and similar passages. Now this going of the pr\u00e2nas is not possible without a base; hence we infer that water also--mixed with parts of the other elements--goes (from the old body to the new one), serving the purpose of supplying a base for the moving pr\u00e2nas. For the pr\u00e2nas cannot, without such a base, either move or abide anywhere; as we observe in living beings.","title":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana: Third Adhy\u00e2ya. First P\u00e2da.: III, 1, 3","type":"page"}