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67 ] mind merges in breath they lose all conscience as well as all contact with their respective bodies. Therefore they could not know of their merging in Sat. At the end of sleep they come a way from Sat. Even this they do not knowHow is it ? This is an other doubt. Uddalaka's reply here is the sene 1s be fore. They do not regain their contact with body and conscience until the mind e:merges from breath aad be gins to act. But they come away from Sat before the rnind does so. So they cannot know their coming away from Sat. Men die. There is the end of the Jivas. They could not exist during the period of destruction. How then could they be put in the forms evolved from matter and the world created. The reply to this quest is this ; <Look at the big tree here, all green with full of life. Hit it at the botto:m or in the middle or at the top of it. It will be vet so long as it lives. Enlivened ana permeated by a Jiva-soul it is full of growth having a pleasant life. But when the Jiva withdraws from one branch it dries up. When again he with draws from another branch it also becomes dry. 1 his is the case also vith a third tranch. When the Jiva leaves the whole tree. the entire tree dries up. We see Jiva's absence is responsible for a part or parts of the tree becoming dry and not the Jiva's death , because there is life in all the other parts of it. By this analogy one may understand that when men die the death pertains to the body and not to Jivas. They pass a way leaving their respective bodies behind and these are dead.