6. They enter into the atmospheric air, as the smoke rises and enters the clouds, and are at last mixed up together by the wind, in the spirit of Brahma. 7. They are then overtaken by the elementary particles, or atoms flying in the air, which lay hold on them in a few days; as the demons seize the host of gods with violence. (These become the living and embodied souls, joined with the many properties of the elements). 8. Then the air breathes the vital breath in these bodies; which infuses life and vigour in them. 9. Thus do living beings manifest themselves on earth, while there are other flyings in the form of smoke as living spirits. (So the spiritualists view the spirits in the etherial clouds). 10. Some of them appear in their subtle elemental forms in their airy cells in the sky, and shine as bright as the beams of the luminous moon. (These are _lingadehas_ or individual spiritual bodies). 11. Then they fall upon the earth like the pale moonbeams falling upon the milky ocean. 12. There they alight as birds in the groves and forests, and become stiffened by sipping the juice of fruits and flowers. 13. Then losing their aerial and bright forms of the moon-beams, they settle on those fruits and flowers: and suck their juice like infants hanging upon the breasts of their mothers. (These are the protozoa, the first and embryonic state of living beings). 14. The protozoa are strengthened by drinking the juice of the fruits, which are ripened by the light and heat of the sun, and then they remain in a state of insensibility; until they enter the animal body. 15. The animated animalcules, remain in the womb with their undeveloped desires; in the same manner as the unopening leaves, are contained in the seed of the _bata_ or Indian fig tree. 16. All lives are situated in the Great God, as fire is inherent in the wood, and the pot resides in the earth; and it is after many processes that they have their full development. 17. One that has received no bodily form, and yet moves on without manifesting itself, is said to be a _satya_ or spiritual being, and has a large scope of action (as the gods). 18. He is said to have a _sátvika_ birth, who gets his liberation in or after his life-time; but whoever is obliged to be reborn by his acts, is said to belong to the _rájas-sátvika_ class. 19. Any one of this class who is born to rule over others, becomes giddy with pride (tamas), he is said to be of the nature of ignorance _támasika_, and I will now speak of this class of beings. 20. Those who are born originally with their sátwika nature, are pure in their conduct and have never to be born again. 21. Men of rája-sátwika temperament have to be reborn on earth; but being elevated by their reasoning powers, they have no more to be born in this nether world. 22. Those who have directly proceeded from the Supreme Spirit (without any intermixture of these natures), are men fraught with every quality, and are very rare on earth.