Question: Is the destruction which takes place at the end of the inhaling sudden or gradual?
Answer: It is gradual, as we inhale and exhale. At the finishing of the breath the destruction is finished. But a little picture of this is the life of very large cobras. There are stories of some people having seen very large cobras, cobras in whose mouth even a cow or a buffalo could enter. In six months or a year's time, when they are hungry, only they have to open their mouth, and to take breath, and as there is a cow, it is attracted and goes into the mouth of the cobra. Then the cobra eats it and then sleeps for six months or a year.