The life of a person begins with breathing and ends with breathing. Following birth, an infant commences an independent life when it inhales the air that fills the earth’s atmosphere, and its collapsed lungs fully expand.
In the West, atmosphere is a scientific term referring to the gasses enveloping Earth. In the East, atmosphere has a more philosophical meaning. While an organism is alive, its breathing sustains its life by “borrowing” some of the energies contained in the atmosphere, and at the end of its life, the organism returns the energy it used back into the atmosphere.
