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thought:-He, who was selected as a Guru (teacher), by his four predecessors, deserves veneration from me, and I also should approach him and get my doubt cleared." With this idea in his mind, Sudharma Swāmî with his five hundred disciples went to the Lord.
यो यादृशःसतादृश, इति सन्दिग्धं मुधर्मनामानम् ।
ऊचे विभुर्यथास्थं, वेदार्थ किं न मावयसि ? ॥१॥ Yo yādrisaḥ sa tādrisaḥ iti sandigdham Sudharma-nāmānam Ūcé vibhu-r-yathästham Védārtham kim na bhāvayasi ?
To the fifth scholar named Sudharma Swămi, who had a doubt in his mind whether a person is born during the next birth in the same class to which he belongs in this life or whether he assumes a different form, the Lord said:-O Sudharman! Why do you not consider the correct meaning of the Védas ? Your doubt has resulted from the Vedic statements which are contradictory to one another.
The Védic sentence, in question, is as follows:
पुरुषो वै पुरुषत्वमश्नुते पशव: पशुत्वम् । Puruso vai puruşatvamaśnuté pašavah pasutvam i
Because of such statements, you believe that a person is born, during the next birth, in the same class to which he belongs in this life.
You interpret the Védic sentence in this way :-( get a garanya Puruso vai purusatvamasnuté.) Inspite of his death, a person assumes, during his next birth, the same form that he has during this life.
978: Trap pašavah paśutvam:] the cows and other animals assume the fornis of the cows etc in the next birth, It means that a man after death is born as a human being and nothing else like a deity, or a lower animal or denizen of hell. Animals after death are born as animals, and in no case, as any thing else like a inan, a god etc.
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