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SUTRA IV. 2. 17.

तदोकोऽग्रज्वलनं तत्प्रकाशितद्वारो विद्यासामर्थ्यात्तच्छेषगत्यनुस्मृतियोगाच्च हार्दानुगृहीताः शताधिकया॥४.२.१७॥

tadoko’grajvalanaṃ tatprakāśitadvāro vidyāsāmarthyāttaccheṣagatyanusmṛtiyogācca hārdānugṛhītāḥ śatādhikayā ..4.2.17..

… Tat, of that, of the soul in which have entered the permanent atoms of speech and the rest. Okah, abode, the heart … Agra-jvalanam, lighting up of the point, the upper portion of the heart becomes illumined. … Tat, by Him, by the Lord dwelling in the heart … Prakashita, illumined, shown. .. Dvarah, the door, the root from which the hundred and first artery has its origin. …. Vidya-samarthyat, by the power of its knowledge. … Tat, that that knowledge, … Shesha, remainder, the element, … Gati, path, the way, the carrying by the Devas called Ativahika on the various stages of that path. … Anusmriti-yogat, because of the application of remembrance. .. Cha, and. .. Krida, (the Lord) who abides in the Heart, …. Anugrhitah, being favoured by, being assisted by. … Shatadhikaya, by the one hundred and first artery.

17. Then there takes place a lighting up of the point of His abode, and by the door so illumined by Him, the soul departs through the hundred and first artery, by virtue of the power of his wisdom and by the application of the memory of the path which results from such wisdom, and through the favour of the Lord in the heart. — 517.

COMMENTARY

The wise goes out by the artery called Sushumna, which is the hundred and first artery. Nor does this artery remain undistinguishable by him. Because as soon as the soul, at the time of departing from the body, has withdrawn into itself all the permanent atoms, beginning with speech up to Prana, there takes place a sudden lighting up of the whole region of the heart, and the soul can at once see the Sushumna artery, by which it has to go out. It does so primarily, through the favour of the Lord of the heart, and secondarily, by the power of the Vidya, that it had acquired, and by virtue of the memory of the path, by which it has to travel, knowing from his Vidya (knowledge), that the path of Devayana is one, on which there are various Devas, who carry the soul from stage to stage. This memory of the teaching, which was theoretical up to that time, comes to his help at that critical moment. Nor is the word knowledge or «Vidya» of this Sutra, the dry theoretical knowledge, it is knowledge coupled with devotion. A result or Shesha of this Vidya is the memory of the Ativahika Devas, who help the soul, to accomplish this journey. It is through the help of these three, namely, through the favour of the Lord Hari dwelling in the heart, through the might of Vidya (devotional knowledge) and through the memory of the Ativahika Devas, that the soul of the wise experiences no difficulty in selecting the proper artery of the heart by which to go out, specially when the whole heart is glowing with the light of the Lord.

Note: This lighting up of the point of the heart takes place in the case of all souls, whether they be wise or ignorant, but the wise alone can select the Sushumna artery and not the ignorant.

When the wise soul is thus helped by the Lord of the heart and by his devotion and the memory, then in that glowing light, the Lord points out to the soul, as it were, the hundred and first artery, by which it should go out. Thus the soul comes to know that artery, and goes out by it. This is the path by which the wise go out.

Adhikarana IX — The wise follows the rays

In the Chhandogya Upanishad (VIII., 6. 5) we have the following:

But when he departs from this body, then he departs upwards by those very rays: or he goes out while meditating on Om. And while his mind is failing, he is going to the sun. For the sun is the door of the world. Those who know, walk in; those who do not know, are shut out. There is this verse: There are a hundred and one arteries of the heart; one of them penetrates the crown of the head, moving upwards by it a man reaches the immortal; the others serve for departing in different directions, yea, in different directions.

The above verses show that the soul coming out by the coronal artery, follows the rays of the sun and thus reaches the disc of the sun. The words in the original are «Etair eva rashmibhir» — by these very rays.

Doubt: Now arises the doubt: That a man dying in the daytime can follow the rays of the sun and go to the solar disc. The question is, does the soul of the wise man, who dies in the night, also follow the rays, when there are no rays to follow?

Purvapaksha: The Purvapakshin maintains, that there being no rays of the sun at the nighttime; only that wise man who dies in the daytime, can follow the rays and not otherwise. The wise, therefore, must die at a time, when the sun is shining.

Siddhanta: This view is set aside in the next Sutra.

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