582
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 10]
TRANSLATION
Thereafter, desiring to evacuate the refuse of eatables, the evacuating hole, anus, and the sensory organ thereof developed along with the controlling deity Mitra. The sensory organ and the evacuating substance are both under the shelter of the controlling deity.
PURPORT
Even in the matter of evacuating stool, the refuse is controlled, so how can the living entity claim to be independent?
TEXT 28
आसिसृप्सोः पुरः पुर्या नाभिद्वारमपानतः । तत्रापानस्ततो मृत्युः पृथक्त्वमुभयाश्रयम् ॥२८॥
āsiṣṛpsoḥ puraḥ puryā nābhi-dvāram apānataḥ tatrāpānas tato mṛtyuḥ pṛthaktvam ubhayāśrayam
āsiṣṛpsoḥ —desiring to go everywhere;  puraḥ —in different bodies;  puryāḥ —from one body;  nābhi-dvāram —the navel or abdominal hole;  apānataḥ —was manifested;  tatra —thereupon;  apānaḥ —stopping of the vital force;  tataḥ —thereafter;  mṛtyuḥ —death;  pṛthaktvam —separately;  ubhaya —both;  āśrayam —shelter.
TRANSLATION
Thereafter, desiring to move from one body to another, the navel and the air of departure and death were combinedly created. The navel is the shelter for both, namely death and the separating force.
PURPORT
The  prāṇa-vāyu  continues the life, and the  apāna-vāyu  stops the living force. And both the vibrations are generated from the abdominal hole, navel. This navel is the joint from one body to the other. Lord Brahmā