The Philosophy of the Upanishads c11.s2.t5.2

c11.s2.t5.2

In Chând. 6. 8. 6² it is said of the dying man :—“In the case of this man, my dear sir, when he dies, his speech enters into the manas, manas into the prâṇa, prâṇa into the heat, heat into the supreme godhead.” Here, according to S'aṅkara,³ as by speech the indriyas as a whole are to be understood, so by heat (*tejas*) the elements as a whole, as they constitute the subtle body in their character of vehicles of the organs on the departure of the soul. According to the words of the text however nothing further is implied here than the thought that the organs, manas, prâṇa and speech, as they have been derived according to Chând. 6. 5 by means of food, water, and heat from the “one being without a second,” so in a similar way at death they are again resolved into it as the supreme godhead.