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The Upanishads, Part 1, no. 109, Part V summary

Part 1, no. 109, Part V of 170 · 1 min to read the part

In V, the speaker states that neither incoming nor outgoing breath sustains a mortal, because both depend on something else. The passage shifts attention from the movements of breathing to an unnamed support on which those movements, and mortal life, depend.

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  1. The speaker denies that incoming breath alone sustains a mortal.
  2. The same denial applies to outgoing breath.
  3. The speaker locates life's support in something else on which both breaths depend.

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