🚧This site is under construction — data is currently being added and may be incomplete or change.🚧
🕉

Sanatan Dharma

सनातन धर्म — Hindu Scripture Knowledge Base

Dissolution ofthe Universe - Verse 98-102

Vayu Purana (G. V. Tagare English translation) · 101 · Verse 98-102

vayu-puranavayu-uttara-yoga-mokshaenglish-translation

Sanskrit Original

🤖 AI GeneratedAI Generated

Those who stay in those abodes do not experience the misery due to the obstacle to the achievement of such desired objects as sweet melody etc. These are the eight Prakfta forms in order. They come into contact with the KfetrajHas. They are of the nature of the three Gunas and five Tanmdtras. People do not see with their eyes the clouds distinct from the water therein in the course of the rainy season. (Similarly ordinary people do not see the individual soul. They can only infer.) The Siddhas, however see it like this by means of their divine vision. The soul takes all kinds of bodies such as those of Brahmanas and those of Candalas*. Thus he moves about in a certain order up and down as well as in the sides (as a result of his own Karmans). He is called by these various names, all synonymic, viz. Jiva (individual soul), Prdna (vital air), Lihga (the symbol), Kdrana (cause). In both manifest and unmanifest (worlds) he is an authority.