Adhikarana II — Does the soul come back on earth

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Adhikarana II — Does the soul come back on earth

with a portion of its Karmas

or after totally exhausting all its Karmas ?

Vishaya: In the Chhandogya Upanishad (V., 10. 5), we find the following text after «But they who live in a village sacrificing, etc»., which describes the method of return from the heaven-world, of those who go there by the Pitriyana path.

Having dwelt there, till their (good) works are consumed, they return again that way as they came, to the ether, from the ether to air. Then the sacrificer, having become air, becomes smoke, having become smoke he becomes mist.

Having become mist, he becomes a cloud; having become a cloud, he rains down. Then he is born as rice and corn, herbs and trees, sesamum and beans. From thence the escape is beset with most difficulties. For whoever the persons may be that eat the food, and beget offspring, he henceforth becomes like unto them.

Doubt: Now arises the doubt: Is the soul returning from heaven accompanied by any remainder of its works or does it descend having exhausted all its Karma?

Purvapaksha: It returns having fully enjoyed the fruits of its Karmas, and without any remainder. The words ‘Yavat-sampatam’ in the above text show, that they do not return till all their works are consumed. Another text also shows that when the end of the Karma is reached, then the soul returns from heaven. That text is of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (IV., 4. 6.).

And here there is this verse: «To whatever object a man’s own mind is attached, to that he goes strenuously together with his deed; and having obtained the end (the last results) of whatever deed he does here on earth, he returns again from that world (which is the temporary reward of his deed) to this world of action.

So much for the man who desires. But as to the man who does not desire, who, not desiring, freed from desires, or desires the Self only, his vital spirits do not depart elsewhere, — being Brahman, he goes to Brahman.

Here also the words ‘Antamkarmanah’ show that all Karmas are exhausted, before the soul returns to earth. Therefore, the descent of the soul is without any remainder. The word ‘Sampata’ means literally Karma, that which carries one to Svarga Loka, (‘Sampatante anene svargalokam iti sampatah’). The word Anushaya means that part of the Karma which remains over and above the part enjoyed in heaven, and which causes experiences in another life, (‘Anushete kartram phala-bhogaya’). Hence it follows, that when the fruit of entire Karma has been enjoyed, there is no remainder which can follow the soul, and start a now series of experiences.

Siddhanta: The soul, in its descent from heaven, comes with a remainder of its Karmas, namely, that portion of it which is not exhausted in heaven world, and for which the proper place of fruition is the lower world. This is shown in the next Sutra.

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