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preceptor and religion. Therefore, devote fully physically, mentally and financially to them and you will be able to escape from hellish tortures.
One who is full of deceits, hypocrisy and unfathomable mind, determines animal life for him for the next existence. Unfa thomable mind means the mind which does not disclose real thoughts with an intent to cheat others. Serenity is a virtue but deceit is a vice.
One who is proof to any kind of advice is a villain. Such a man also secures animal's life for his next existence. One who conceals spite in heart and destroys the opponent at the proper occasion also contracts animal life for him. That is why the authors of sacred scriptures have declared, “Mainly the traders secure animal life for them for their next existence". But they have used the word “Mainly" because the traders who commit acts of charity and give donations for charitable causes obtain auspicious existence.
Persons with soft passions not very durable and acute with natural inclination for giving in charity with generosity of heart (Spending for religious cause is generosity and spending for temporal cause is extravagance), with normal virtues secure for them human existence. Persons with such characteristics are few in this world and so very few souls secure human existence for them.
Numberless Souls go to the divine existence from the state of humanity and animality but very few souls can acquire the state of gods with great opulence. Gods also are classed as good and evil. The former oppress others as they are by nature evil (Asuri).
A soul, attaining the fourth grade of spiritual progress would contract divine existence. Next existence is secured only once during life time and it is not certain as to when it would be contracted. We are not aware of it. We should cherish faith in the Lord's commands, and should entertain proper and right form of understanding to contract the life as a god in heaven. When the understanding is adulterated then you contract the life of a lower type of god as Jyotishi or Bhuvanapatideva. Those who die after craving for something or having committed suicide are born as gods known as Vyantara.
