If life were nothing else than air, or if life depended only on the air, then it could have been seen like the outward sea of air, and when passing out it would have been mixed with that air.
यदि वायुमयो जीव: संश्लेषो यदि वायुना। वायुमण्डलवद् दृश्यो गच्छेत् सह मरुद्गणैः॥