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to the Chandra-loka?

It was mentioned above that those who perform sacrifices and so on, go to the moon-world and descend from it with the remainder of their works. Now is discussed the question, whether the sinners, who do not perform any holy works, also go to the Moon-world, and what is their method of ascent and descent? In the Ishavasya Upanishad, verse 3, it is said:

There are the worlds of the Asuras, covered with blind darkness. These who have destroyed their self-go after death to those worlds.

Doubt: Now arises the doubt — Do the sinners go to the Moon-world or do they go to the Yama-loka?

Purvapaksha: The Purvapakshin maintains that the evil-doers also go to the world of gladness. The author summarizes their view in the next Sutra which is really a Purvapaksha Sutra.

SUTRA III. 1. 13.

अनिष्टादिकारिणामपि च श्रुतम्॥३.१.१३॥

aniṣṭādikāriṇāmapi ca śrutam ..3.1.13..

... Anishtadikarinam, of those who do not perform sacrifices, .. Api, also, .. Cha, and. .. Shrutam, stated in the Shruti, declared by scripture.

13. The scripture declares that the non-performer of sacrifices and so on, also go to the world of gladness. — 304.

COMMENTARY

Objection: The scripture declares the ascent to the world of gladness even of those persons who are non-performers of sacrifices and so on, just like those who perform these works. In the Kaushitaki Upanishad (I., 2), it is declared that all go to the Chandra-loka.

All who depart from this world (or this body) go to the Moon.

The world all shows that it is a universal proposition, without any qualifications. Since all who die, must go to the world of gladness, it follows that the sinners also go there. This being so, the above text of the Ishavasya Upanishad must be interpreted as a threat, in order to make men desist from evil deeds: for there is no such place like the land of the Asuras.

If this be so, then what is the difference between the sinners and the holy men, for both go equally to the land of joy, after their death? Both have the same fruit. To this we reply, there is a vast difference in their conditions. The sinners in the world of joy, do not experience any happiness (because they have not got the vehicles to enjoy that world), they remain there in a state of swoon.

Siddhanta: The sinners do not go to the Moon-world, but to the world of punishment, as is shown by the next Sutra.

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