asisrpsoh purah purya
nabhi-dvaram apanatah
tatrapanas tato mrtyuh
prthaktvam ubhayasrayam
asisrpsoh -- desiring to go everywhere; purah -- in different bodies; puryah -- from one body; nabhi-dvaram -- the navel or abdominal hole; apanatah -- was manifested; tatra -- thereupon; apanah -- stopping of the vital force; tatah -- thereafter; mrtyuh -- death; prthaktvam -- separately; ubhaya -- both; asrayam -- shelter.
The prana-vayu continues the life, and the apana-vayu stops the living force. Both the vibrations are generated from the abdominal hole, the navel. This navel is the joint from one body to the other. Lord Brahma was born of the abdominal hole of Garbhodakasayi Visnu as a separate body, and the same principle is followed even in the birth of any ordinary body. The body of the child develops from the body of the mother, and when the child is separated from the body of the mother, it is separated by cutting the navel joint. And that is the way the Supreme Lord manifested Himself as separated many. The living entities are therefore separated parts, and thus they have no independence.
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