Death is not permanent and so the birth
“To
a Hindu the idea that the souls of men migrated after death into new bodies of
living beings, o f animals, nay, even of plants, is so well self evident that
it was hardly ever question. We never meet with any attempt of proving or
disproving it among the prominent writers of ancient and modern times”
found German Scholar Seelen Wanderung.
“Then,
man was born with the power of thought, the knowledge of good and evil, and the
cruel thirst for worship. And man saw that all is passing in this mad,
monstrous world that all is struggling to snatch, at any cost, a few briefed
moments of life before death’s inexorable decree” Dr. Faustus,
“The
self is hidden in all beings and does not shine forth, but it is seen by subtle
seers through their sharp and subtle intellect. A wise man should keep them within
self which is knowledge. He should keep knowledge within the self which is
great and he should keep this greatness within the self which is the quiet.
Rise, awake! Having obtained your boons understand them, the sharp edge of a
razor is difficult to pass over, difficult is the path to the self, the wise
tell it” Yama, the god of death, addressing Nachiketa, a young boy in,
Katha Upnisad. The philosophy started in India with the only key word of
“There
was then neither what is nor what not (truth) is. There was neither sky nor the
heaven which is beyond what covered? Where was it, and in whose shelter? Was
the water the deep abyss in which it lay? There was no death hence was there
nothing immortal. There was no light and even distinction between day and
night. That one breathed by itself without breath, other than it there has been
nothing. Darkness there was, in the beginning all this was a sea, without
light, the germ that lay covered by the husk, that one was born by the power of
heat (Tapas). Love overcomes it in the beginning which was the seed springing
from mind; poets having searched in their heart and found by wisdom the bond of
what is in what is not. Their ray which was stretch across was it below or was
it above?
There
were seeds, because there was power, self power below and will above, who then
knows, who has declared it here, from whence was born this creation, the gods
came latter than this creation who then know whence it arose. He from whom the
creation arose whether he made it or didn’t make it the highest seer in the
highest heaven, he for sooth knows or does even he not know,” Nasadiya
Hymans RVx 81 2 to 4.
“The
eyes of the beloved are white, red and dark and are full of nectar,
intoxication and poison, with the result that once they pierce the heart of the
lover, he experiences the joy of life, the agony of restlessness and the
inertia of death. The recollection of the beloved hives him joy and make life
worth living, separation causes acute pain and makes him restless and intensity
of love makes him forget everything and become inaction, unconscious and almost
dead” Raas, a Hindu poet
The
Nasadiya Hymn again asked and put questions on the concept which was
established by the seers about gods, “There was then neither what is nor
what not (truth) is. There was neither sky nor the heaven which is beyond what
covered? Where was it, and in whose shelter? Was the water the deep abyss in
which it lay? There was no death hence was there nothing immortal. There was no
light and even distinction between day and night. That one breathed by itself
without breath, other than it there has been nothing. Darkness there was, in
the beginning all this was a sea, without light, the germ that lay covered by
the husk, that one was born by the power of heat (Tapas). Love overcomes it in
the beginning which was the seed springing from mind; poets having searched in
their heart and found by wisdom the bond of what is in what is not. Their ray
which was stretch across was it below or was it above? There were seeds,
because there was power, self power below and will above, who then knows, who has
declared it here, from whence was born this creation, the gods came latter than
this creation who then know whence it arose. He from whom the creation arose
whether he made it or didn’t make it the highest seer in the highest heaven, he
for sooth knows or does even he not know,” Nasadiya
Hymans RVx 81 2 to 4.
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