If it be said that (the sacrificial duty leads to grief) since it is hurtful and impious; (the objection is pointed out to be) not valid; for it is enjoined by the word.

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27. If it be said that (the sacrificial duty leads to grief) since it is hurtful and impious; (the objection is pointed out to be) not valid; for it is enjoined by the word.

It may be said that sacrificial work involves injury to life, and as such it is productive of sin and consequently of misery, and that, therefore, it is not to be performed. But this objection is to be refuted on the ground that the injury to life involved in holy duties is permitted by the word (scripture); for the Varahapurana says, “To do harm to any life except as enjoined by scripture is really productive of sin and evil consequences; on the other hand, no evil consequences possibly arise from the act of killing permitted by the Vedas.”

With the statement, “Even he who comes down from Svarga (as well as he who returns from hell) directly goes to the womb of the mother”, how is the following Shruti to be consistently interpreted?” “Into him who is the householder, who performs the act of generation, the journeying soul enters.” To clear this difficulty the Sutrakara says:.

28. First he enters into him who performs the act of generation, then into the mother).

“Then the soul in rice, etc., along with the food first enters into the father, (who performs the act of generation), then into the mother, then he is born, he performs works.” Thus from the Kauntharavya Shruti, the returning soul, it is clear, first enters the father only; for the entering, however, into the mother is to take place afterwards. (Hence the statement quoted in the beginning is to be interpreted as a general rule that the returning soul has to enter into the mother before obtaining a gross body).

From the statement, “The soul returning from Svarga may enter into a (ready-made) body, in the womb (or) somewhere”, it appears that he enters into the gross body when it is ready-made in the mother’s womb subsequent to the act of generation on the part of the father. To remove this objection the Sutrakara says:

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