We not only affect the objects around us, but other human beings. The life-atoms that we have impressed give the three lower kingdoms their natures. This has been misinterpreted by the Brahmins who teach that the souls of men can reincarnate in the three lower kingdoms. Life presents an absolute aspect and an individual aspect. The Life Principle or Prana is that life-force which energizes all the infinitesimal lives which make up our bodies.
Life sustains all the forms requiring life.
So, Prana is our individual use of the life-breath and energy. It is the Reincarnating Ego, and this is who we really are. Back to text. This state of consciousness is always that of the personality we were in the life just finished, and where we experience only pleasant dreams that play out to fruition our highest aspirations for what we could have been in the life just finished, how we wanted the people we loved and knew to be, and harmonious world conditions as we would have had them be. It lasts as long as the energy we put into those types of thoughts in our lifetime.