ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : - Mantram -3.
ISAVASYA UPANISHAD :
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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.
Next : Discussion-7. People ( Janah )....Atma-hanah .... and final summation ....
To be continued ....
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