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The Pitris, of whom four classes are only mentioned (Agni-
shvatvas, Barhishads, Saumyas and Ajyapas), are also divided into
two classes, one with fire and one without fire.
The attendants of Siva were dwellers of the astral or Bhuvar
plane.
For the sake of convenient reference we shall call the dwellers
of Svarga Loka Devasand the dwellers of Bhuvar Loka, Astrals. The
different classes of Devas and Astrals are described in the 20th chapter
of the 4th Skandha. The Devas and Astrals were brought into mani-
festation by Daksha, whose position in creation was next to that of
Brahma. Therefore all stood up to receive him at the sacrifice
except Brahma.
Siva first appeared as Kumara Ntla Lohita or Rudra. And all
beings thereafter got the potentiality of dissolution, phenomenal change,
death and decay. But in the first stage of life process, phenomenal
change, decay or dissolution was not in requisition, as Monads went on
in their downward journey, not by dissolution, but by evolution.
They remained what they were, and they acquired in addition a
more material form. As the material form became prominent the Deva
form and the astral form became suppressed.
Consciousness in Deva form manifests itself as mind, in the
astral form as animal desire and sense perception. In the miner-
al form it can hardly shew itself.
Siva works out the decay and dissolution of mineral matter, so
that the astral element may once more assert itself and there may be
sense perception in the mineral metomorphosed into the vegatable.
The process is carried further in the animal kingdom, and the ani-
mals get a constitution in which Kama or animal desire can manifest
itself. The animals evolve themselves by death. Death frees them
from the trammels of one set of experience, and carries them on-
wards till the human body is reached.
The work of dissolution proceeds in various ways. Our sleep
is partial dissolution. It is brought on by the astral attendants of
Siva.
Dissolution is caused by Tamas. Tamas begets inaction, and
inaction causes death and decay. There is no phenomenal change
without dissolution, death or decay.
There are so many material tendencies in us that they require
rejection. Siva gives us the power of rejection, as Vishnu, the
power of preservation preservation of all that is good in us. Death
makes the man, where moral teachings fail,
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