शरीरं यद्वाप्नोति यच्चाप्युत्क्रामतीश्वरः ।
गृहीत्वैतानि संयाति वायुर्गन्धानिवाशयात् ॥ ८ ॥
गृहीत्वैतानि संयाति वायुर्गन्धानिवाशयात् ॥ ८ ॥
śarīraṃ yadvāpnoti yaccāpyutkrāmatīśvaraḥ .
gṛhītvaitāni saṃyāti vāyurgandhānivāśayāt .. 8 ..
When the Lord acquires a body, and when He leaves it, He takes these and goes, as the wind takes scents from their seats.
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When the Jīva, the Lord of the aggregate of the body and the rest, is to leave the body, then (he draws round himself the senses and the manas). When he leaves a former body and enters another, he does so, taking these—the (five) senses with the manas the sixth—with him as the wind takes with it the scents of flowers.
What then are those (senses)?