^212:2 Cause and effect are not entirely separated, therefore water, as the elementary cause, and earth, fire, &c., as its effect, are one; likewise the worshipper, as the father, and the earth, fire, &c. as his sons, as described above. Mula and tula, root and shoot, are evidently chosen for the sake of the rhyme, to signify cause and effect.

^213:1 Prana is called the girih, because it is swallowed or hidden by the other senses (giranat). Again a mere play of words, intended to show that Brahman under the form of Prana, or life, is to be meditated on.