ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : - Mantram -3.

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VAJASANEYI    SAMHITA    UPANISHAD


Mantram-3.



Discussion-6. 'theory  of  incarnation'  ...  'ego-centric equipment' ...  at  the  moment  of  death  ...


Here,  there  is  a  clear  hint  at  the  theory  of  reincarnation  accepted  by  the  great  religions  of  the  East.

Reincarnation  of  the  "Soul"( Atma )  is  unquestionably  recognised  in  the  western  Bibles.

Here  the  scripture  clearly  hints  at  the  life  of  the  'Soul' after  the  death  of  its  present  body.




The ego-centric  equipment,  that  leaves  the  physical  body  at  the  moment  of  death,  goaded  thereafter,  by  its  own  motive-force,  loaned  out  to  it  by  the  impulses  in  its  own  past  accumulated  impressions,  the  "Vasanas".

The  mind  gains  its  direction  to  move  from  its  impressions,  gathered  by  itself,  from  its  own  previous  experiences ( janmam ).

Thus,  if  an  entity  were  to  live  a  life  of  slumber  and  sloth,  neither  getting  into  the  subtle  activities  of  meditation  nor  the  grosser  activities  of  worldly  contentions,  it  degenerates  itself  into  an  animal  existence.



Such  a  mind,  when  released  from  the  body ( on  death ),  motivated  and  whipped  by  its  own  impulses,  dives  into  the  lower  strata  of  existence  in  the  world-of-animals  or  the  world-of vegetation  or  the  world-of-stone-life.

These  layers  of  beings  and  things are  comparatively  "Sunless" because  they  belong  to  a  strata  of  non-intelligence.

The  sun  stands  for  illumination-the-intelligence.

In  short,  even  when  an  individual  thus  ignores  both ( 1. Path  of  Renunciation 2. Path of  Action  ( Karma ) / Activities,)  such  an  idler  will  be  unconsciously  decaying  himself.

As  an  individual  would  decay,  so  would  the  history  be,  when  the  nation  or  the  community  as  a  whole  comes  to  live  the  same  kind  of  life.


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