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GANADHARA 10- -METARYA
(1949) Hearing that they had become monks, Metarya came to the Victor (thinking), 'I shall go, bow to him and wait upon him.'
(1950) He was accosted by the Victor free from birth, old age and death, and omniscient, all-seeing, by his name and gotra (as Metarya Kaundinya).
(1951) Are you thinking 'Does the other world exist or not'. This is your doubt. And you do not know the meaning (import) of the words of the Veda. This is what they mean.
(1952) You think, 'If consciousness is an attribute of the material elements, as intoxication (wine-spirit) is of the constituents of wine, then there is no other-world, for these (elements) being destroyed, it is destroyed.
(1953) Now, even if it (consciousness) is an entity different from them (material elements), still because it is not eternal, there will be the same fault (i.e. it will not transmigrate, as it is perishable), like perishable fire different from the fire-wood. (Hence consciousness will perish and it is not necessary to imagine another world).
(1954) If it be all-pervading and inactive, even then there would be no other-world, because there would be no movement to another place, as in the case of the sky which is present in all bodies.
(1955) If the world of gods, etc. be looked upon as 'other world' because it is other than this world, that also is
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