Philosophy of Death (3) !!

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What happens after death? Our ancient sages also thought about this

and with their Yogabala, found the answer. In Kathopanishada,

Nachiketa also asks Yama, the God of Death:-

 

Ye yam pretey vichiktsa manushaye

Astitayeke neyamstiti chaikey

 

(Kathopanishad)

 

There is a doubt about the dead person. Some say he does not

perish and some say he perishes after death…What is the Truth ?

 

 

In Gita Shri Krishna says:-

 

Vasansi jirnani yathha vihay…….navani dehi (2/22)

 

Like a person discards old clothes and wears new clothes, similarly

soul discards old or worn out bodies and takes new body.

 

Upanishadas divide the Gati (Movement of astral body after death)

into three types viz. Devyana, Pitrayana, and Adhogati

 

1- Those people who follow their dharma and do all the Karma

without detachment, follow the path of Devyana. Brihdanyak

Upanishada says :

 

Tey ya evamet…. Tesham na punaravritti (6/2/15)

Those people who have families, but who know the Pancha

Yagyas, or those who are Sanyasis or those who have detached

themselves from the desires and world and are busy in worshipping

the HiranyaGarbha ….these people after death follow the Devayaan.

They go to heavens, live with higher souls…and take higher births

and thus continuing their sadhna go from Devaloka to AdityaLoka, and

from Adityaloka to Vidyutloka and from vidyutloka to Brahmloka.

They live in that Brhamloka till the end of universe and do not come

back to earth .

 

2- Those who are domestic or sanyasi but do good karma to get

back the fruits of their karma, either from God or from men or gods

take the path of Pitrayana. Brihdanyaka Upanishada says

 

Athh ye yagyen danen tapasa….. evmevanuparivartantey

(6/2/16)

 

And those who do Yagya, donations, and tapas and win other

lokas they go by Dark Path or Pitrayana….From Pitrayana to

Pitraloka, from pitralika to the moon (This is not the physical

moon). There they enjoy the Somrasa and live with gods and when

their good karma are finished they to the Akasa and from Akasha to

air and from air to rain and with the rain they enter into the

grains.

 

This grains are when eaten by men, they enter the sperms of

the men and when the sperm mate with the egg in the women, these

soul start taking new birth.

 

After many such births they become like type I and follow

the Devayana.

 

3- Those who are do not do any good karma, do not donate to the

poor or do not help others but are busy in violence and selfish acts

follow the ADHOGATI… they do not go out of the earth and take birth

as insects, animals trees etc and after unspecified time, take birth

in human form again.

 

There is another Gati called A-gati in our Shastra. This is very

dangerous as there is no movement in the soul after Death. In

agati, the soul is locked into a loop of time and does not go up or

down. Sastras say there should be any gati…up or down as with up

gati, soul will get fruits of his good karma, and with down gati,

soul will burn up its bad karma

 

But Agati, puts a soul into an unending circle of time, where it

does not go anywhere and wastes the valueable time. Shraadh,

donation etc in the name of dead souls was thus advised by our

saints, so that the soul gets out of the Agati and start its journey

either upwards or downwards.