Each of these has seventy-two thousand branching channels. Within these moves the diffused breath. Rising upward through one of these, the up-breath leads by virtue to the heaven of virtue, by sin to the hell of sin, and by both back to the human world. The goddess of the earth supports a person's outbreath. What is between, namely space, is the equalizing breath.
Air is the diffused breath.
Heat is the up-breath. Therefore one whose heat has ceased goes to rebirth with the senses sunk in the mind. Whatever is one's consciousness, with that one enters into the life-breath. The life-breath joined to the heat together with the soul lead to whatever world has been imagined. The wise who know the life-breath thus do not lose their offspring and become immortal.