sanatsujatheeyam chapter2

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7.aasyaadheva nissarathe naraaNaam

kroDhaH pramaadho moharoopam mrthyuH

ahamgathenaiva charan vimaargaan

na cha aathmanaH yogam upaithi kinchith

 

The

ignorance, of men, termed as death, is transformed into ego. From this comes

out desire, from which arises anger ignorance, which in its turn gives way to

delusion. Proceeding towards the wrong path due to egoistic attitude one never

attains the union with the Self.

 

The

word aasya can be taken to mean

either ahamkara or desire. asyanthe anena

praaNinah samsaare ( by this the beings are thrown into samsara) ithi aasyaH, kaamaH. As such it means that anger arises from desire when

thwarted. From the ahankara which produces the feeling that `I am a Brahmin,' `I

am a man,' `I am short, fat,' etc., the delusion of identifying oneself with

the body, mind and intellect arises. Then the deluded goes away from the prescribed

path to salvation by the Vedas. And straying away thus from the right path

there is no chance for the realization of

the Self.

 

The

Lord has said in the Bhagavatgita, `kaama

eshakroDha esha rajoguNa samudhbhvaH

mahaaSano mahaappapma,' (BG.3.37), this desire and anger which is

one and the same, is the devourer of all and the great sinner. This is the effect of pramadha , ignorance and hence pramaadha

is mentioned as the mrthyu, death.

 

The

descent of man by following the wrong path is described in the Gita, in chapter

2, slokas 62 and 63, Dhyaayatho vishyaan

pumsaH--- where it is said that from desire anger arises and it leads to

delusion, dementia and destruction. Hence it is mrthyu or death.

 

8. the mohithaah thadhvaSe

varthamaanaa

ithaH prethaaH thathra punaH pathanthi

thathaH tham dhevaaH anu pariplavanthe

athaH mrthyum maraNaath abhyupaithi

 

Those

who are deluded by this ignorance fall in to its clutches and when they die they

fall back again into the world. Then surrounded by the senses again they experience death and

this goes on.

 

Those

who identify themselves with the body, become slaves to the senses and as

mentioned in the previous sloka they go astray and enter in to the cycle of

birth and death. They go by the path of smoke, then to the night and then the

six months of dark fortnight and then to dhakshiNayana, the months when the Sun

travels southwards, then they reach the pitrloka form where they proceed to the

moon.' `Dhoomo raathriH thaTHaa krshNaH

shaNmaasaa uttharaayanam thathr achaandramasam jyothiH,'(BG.8.25) The Upanishad says ,

 

thasmin yaavath sampaatham

ushithvaaaTha etham eva aDhvaanam punaH nivarthanthe,(Ch.Up.5.10) residing there till they exhaust the results of

their actions they come again by the same path. `KsheeNe puNye marthyalokam viSanthi,(BG.9.21)

 

By

acquiring another body they again become the slaves of indhriyas and go through

birth and death incessantly.