{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe38/sbe38284.htm","path":"hin/sbe38/sbe38284.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe38/sbe38284.htm","text":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana, Commentary by Sankara (SBE38), tr. by George Thibaut [1896]\n4. That (viz. breath) (is merged) in the ruler (i.e. the individual soul), on account of the (statements as to the pr\u00e2nas) coming to it and so on.\nWe have ascertained that a thing which has not originated from another is not itself merged in the latter, but only through its functions. A doubt now arises whether, according to the word of scripture, the function of breath is merged in heat, or in the individual soul which is the ruler of the body and senses.--According to the p\u00fbrvapakshin we must conclude that the breath is merged in heat only, since the scriptural statement allows no room for doubt and we are not entitled to assume something not declared by scripture. The breath under discussion persists 'in the ruler,' i.e. the intelligent Self (the individual soul) which possesses nescience, work, and former knowledge as limiting adjuncts; i.e. the function of breath has that soul for its substratum.--Why so?--'On account of (the pr\u00e2nas) going towards him,' &c.--Another scriptural passage declares that all pr\u00e2nas without any difference go to the soul, 'All the pr\u00e2nas go to the Self at the time of death when a man is thus going to expire' (Bri. Up. IV, 3, 38). Another passage again specially declares that the pr\u00e2na with its five functions follows the individual soul, 'After him thus departing the pr\u00e2na departs, 'and that the other pr\u00e2nas follow that pr\u00e2na, 'And after the pr\u00e2na thus departing all the other pr\u00e2nas depart' (Bri. Up. IV, 4, 2). And the text, 'He is furnished with intelligence' (ibid.), by declaring the individual soul to\nbe of intimately intelligent nature, suggests that in it, viz. the soul, the pr\u00e2na--into which the different organs of knowledge have been merged--has taken its abode.--But scripture also says, 'The pr\u00e2na (is merged) in heat;' why then make the addition implied in the doctrine--that breath is merged in the individual soul?--We must make that addition, we reply, because in the process of departure &c. the soul is the chief agent, and because we must pay regard to specifications contained in other scriptural passages also.--How then do you explain the statement, 'Breath is merged in heat?'--To this question the next S\u00fbtra replies.","title":"The Vedanta Sutras of Badarayana: Fourth Adhy\u00e2ya. Second P\u00e2da: IV, 2, 4","type":"page"}