{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe48/sbe48320.htm","path":"hin/sbe48/sbe48320.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe48/sbe48320.htm","text":"3. And on account of the going of the pr\u00e2nas.\nThat the soul goes embedded in the subtle rudiments of the elements follows therefrom also that when passing out of the old body it is said to be followed by the pr\u00e2nas, 'when he thus passes out, the chief pr\u00e2na follows after him,' &c. (Bri. Up. V, 4, 2). Compare also Smriti: 'It draws to itself the organs of sense, with the mind for the sixth. When the Ruler (soul) obtains a new body, and passes out of another, he takes with him those organs and then moves on, as the wind takes the odours from their abodes (the flowers)' (Bha. G\u00ee. XV, 8). But the pr\u00e2nas cannot move without a substrate, and hence we must admit that the rudiments of the elements--which are their substrate--are also moving.","title":"SBE 48: The Vedanta-Sutras with commentary by Ramanuja, George Thibaut, tr.: First P\u00e2da: 3. And on account of the going of the pr\u00e2nas","type":"page"}