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Nārako vai ésa jāyaté yab sidrānnamtaśnāti
The Brāhmaṇa who eats the food prepared by a non-brăhmin, is born as a denizen of hell.
These and such other Vedic statements prove that there is the authority of para-loka (another world), because, if there is no para-loka (another world), how can the person performing the Agni-hotra sacrifice go to it ?; and how can a Brāhmaṇa eating food prepared by a non-brähmin, become a hell - dweller ?
Because of such contradictory Védic statements, the doubt has been produced in your mind as to whether para-loka (another world) exists or not. But O Métăryal You doubt is groundless; because, you have not followed the correct meaning of the Vedic statement.
The interpretation of the Védic statement is as follows: -
[farenaran sa vijnāna ghana éva] means the upayoga-use of knowledge-perception-is called visnāna; and the soul that is in the form of the assemblage of that vijnāna, being produced in the form of upayoga (use, attention) of the five elements like Earth, Water etc-which are perceptible to the senses or being produced for the use of the objects like a pitcher or a cloth, which are the outcome of the five elements (and we say-This is earth-This is a pitcher or This is a cloth and so on), aroasa farrafa tänyévă'nu vinaśyati ] is lost in the form of the use or attention of these elements after they lose their perception, and, then, the soul is produced in the form of the upayoga ( use, attention) of other objects, or it remains in the sãmânya (common) form (a gasista na prétya-sanjnā asti). Thus, the soul being non-existent in the form of the previous attention or use, there does not remain the name indicating its former use or attention
These Védic statements show the birth and the destruction of the soul with regard to its relation to the objects like a pitcher,
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