When the lease of a person's life ends, the five primal elements of his body attain to the seventh and the ninth stages and they cease to be. The person, however, suffers no change.
स तस्य सहजातस्य सप्तमी नवमीं दशाम्। प्राप्नुवन्ति ततः पञ्च न भवन्ति गतायुषः॥