The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c9.s3.t2.5

c9.s3.t2.5

3. When further it is said in Chând. 6, 8, 6 that *Prâna* merges into heat (*tejas*), we must note that, in the first place, it enters not into heat but into the overseer (*adhyaksha*) by which is to be understood "the overseer of the cage of the "body and the organs," that is, the individual soul (*jîva*) (p. 1091, 6); the latter (*jîva*) is defined on this occasion as "self of knowledge endowed with the limitations (*upâdhi*) of "knowledge, works and previous experience" (p. 1091, 9), by which, as we shall show immediately, the moral character is to be understood. With the latter the soul seems to be more closely united than with its organs; for while these must first enter into it, the moral character clings to the soul of itself.—Even though in the successive stages of the entering in the fundamental passage Chând. 6, 8, 6, does not mention the individual soul, yet its insertion between *Prâna* and *Tejas* is justified by another scriptural passage (Brịh. 4, 3, 38, translated above p. 192) in which it is said that at death all the *Prânas* enter into the soul, and that, when the latter departs, life and with it all the organs of life,¹²⁶ depart with it (p. 1091, 12).