The stage of Vayu comes after that of the Abda (or year)

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Now the Author, in order to show that the stages of Vayu, etc., mentioned in other texts, are to be combined with Archis, begins a new Sutra. In the Kaushitaki passage given above, we have it stated that «he comes to the world of Agni, to the world of Vayu, etc». The whole passage is repeated below (Kau. Up., I., 3.):

He (at the time of death) having reached the path of the gods, comes to the world of Agni, to the world of Vayu, to the world of Varuna, to the world of Indra, to the world of Prajapati, to the world of Brahman.

Doubt: Here arises the doubt: Should the stages of Vayu and the rest mentioned above, be inserted in the Archiradi path, or should they not?

Purvapaksha: The opponent holds the view that they should not be so inserted, because they are read in a certain order, and because no option is allowed to make any such addition.

Siddhanta: This view is controverted in the next Sutra.

Note: The three texts, one from the Chhandogya Upanishad, one from the Kaushitaki Upanishad and the third from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, began the description of the path with three different words, «Archis», «Agni» and «Vayu». In order to harmonise them, it is shown that the path really commences with Archis; and Agni and Surya are but different modes of Archis, while Vayu also comes in on the path, but at a later stage. To understand the discussion, we may anticipate matters and say that there are twelve (or according to another calculation) thirteen stages on the path. After the soul has entered the coronal artery it successively passes for rather is conducted by the Devas of) the following stages:

1. Archis, the Deva of light.

2. Dinam, the Deva of day.

3. Shuklapaksham, the Deva of the Bright-fortnight.

4. Uttarayanam, the Deva of the northern progress of the sun.

5. Samvatsaram, the Deva of the year.

6. Devalokam, the world of the Devas: (the same as Vayuloka, according to some).

7. Vayu, the world of Vayu.

8. Adityam, the world of the sun.

9. Chandram, the world of the moon.

10. Vidyut, the world of lightning.

11. Varunam, the world of water.

12. Indram, the world of Indra.

13. Prajapati, the world of Prajapati or of the four-faced Brahma.

No single passage of the Upanishad gives all these thirteen stages; but they are arrived at by collating different passages scattered in various Upanishads. This is what the author of the Sutras has done.

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