agnyādigatiśruteriti cenna bhāktatvāt ..3.1.4..

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SUTRA III. 1. 4.

अग्न्यादिगतिश्रुतेरिति चेन्न भाक्तत्वात्॥३.१.४॥

agnyādigatiśruteriti cenna bhāktatvāt ..3.1.4..

… Agny-adi, Agni and others, … Gati, about going, entering. … Shruteh, on account of the statement of the scriptures. Iti, as, thus. … Chet, if. Na, not, … Bhaktatvat, on account of the metaphorical nature of, for referring to the partial.

4. If it be said that the scriptural text mentions also the going of the various senses into various elements, like lire, etc., and therefore, the senses do not accompany the Soul, when it goes out of the body; to this we reply, that the. going of the senses to the elements is metaphorical only. — 295.

COMMENTARY

In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, we find the following:

Yajnavalkya, he said, when the speech of this dead person enters into the fire, breath into the air, the eye into the sun, the mind into the moon, the hearing into space, into the earth the body, into the ether the self, into the shrubs the hairs of the body, into the trees the hairs of the head, when the blood and the seed are deposited in the water. ‘ where is then that person?

This going of the sense organs like speech, etc., into fire, etc., shows that they do not accompany the soul when it leaves the body. The text which says that the senses accompany the soul must, therefore, be interpreted in a different way. To this objection, the Sutra replies that it is not so. The merging of the speech in fire, etc., is to be explained in a metaphoric sense, because in its literal sense they are not true. For the hairs of the body do not enter into the herbs, nor do the hair of the head into trees. Manifestly, Lomas and Keats do not enter into herbs and trees; and in their case we are forced to explain the statement as figurative only. Why should then the entering of speech into fire, breath into the air, the eye into the sun, the mind into the moon, etc., be taken in its literal sense? For both being read in the same sentence, must be explained in the same way. Either the whole is metaphorical, or the whole is literally true. But it is not literally true, because the Lomas and the Keshas are never seen to jump out of the human body and enter into herbs and trees. The entering of speech into fire, etc, means that at the time of death, these senses cease to perform their functions, and not that they are absolutely lost to the Soul. The conclusion, therefore, is that the soul does go accompanied by the senses, and the permanent atoms, for the gross accompanies the subtle.

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