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Adhi-bhuta and Adhi-daiva.
(5). It is not self manifest.
Atma is one, immutable and self manifest.
Ahankara is at the root of all doubt and delusion. They last
as long as the mind is turned away from me.
RE-INCARNATION.
SKANDHA XL CHAP. 22.
Uddhava asked:
Those that are turned away from Thee take on and give up
bodies. Tell me something about rebirth.
Srikrishna replied:
The mind of men imprinted with karma moves with the five
senses from body to body. Atma (under the denomination of " I")
accompanies the mind.
The mind (after death) thinks of such seen and unseen objects
as the karma of men places before it. It awakes (unto those objects,
it thinks of) and fades away (in respect of previous objects). The
memory (connecting the present with the past) dies away in conse-
quence.
When one loses all thoughts of one's body on account of close
application to another object (body), through some cause or other,
that utter forgetfulness is his death. (By karma, man gets
after his socalled death either a deva body, or a body of inflictions.
In the former case, it is through pleasure and desire and in the latter
case, through fear and sorrow, that the Jiva utterly forgets his former
body. That is the death of the Jiva who used to identify himself
with the former body and not the destruction of Jiva as of the body.
Sridhta.
The Deva-body is the phenomenal basis of the Jiva in Svarga
Loka. The body of inflications is the astral or Kamic body, in
Bhuta, Preta and Pisacha Loka, where the Jiva uudergoes inflictions.
The Jiva identifies itself with these new bodies or new states in such
a way as to forget completely its former physical body. The connec-
tion with the former body is thus completely cut off in the mind.
This is the death of the Jiva in relation to its previous body.)
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