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greater share of finite joys for a longer period of existence. This is called the experience of 'Heaven'. The other type is called the lower wombs which comprise the existence in the form of the animals and birds, plants and trees. These lower yonies introduce us into a plane of consciousness wherein the individual egos, with their different degrees of dullness, come to experience an immense amount of concentrated sorrow. These two paths exhaust all possibilities of the future and they are indicated here by the term carried up and down'.
The reactions of the past neither tend for too much enjoyment, nor too much suffering when they are almost equibalanced; then such ego-centre with its slight tendencies to be either good or bad, present itself in a human form here on this globe. As a man, in one's life time, every one of us has chances to smile and to sob, to enjoy success and to suffer failures, and also, we are provided with a discriminative intellect which can be used to understand the Real from the unreal. Here, in this world, neither are we dead-drunk with happiness, nor fully doped with sorrow; and thus, a chance is given to every one to consciously move either up or down, or towards the infinite Freedom of Pure God-hood. Spiritual endeavour is possible neither in the planes of experiences indicated by the term 'up', or in the fields of sorrows covered by the term, 'down'.
Each of us comes to gain our required field, appropriate to our past and perfectly forming a logical sequence with our motives, thoughts and desires entertained in the past. Guided by the very instincts created in us as a result of the past Karmas, ordered by our own karma-data, we reach our destinations created by ourselves, which are nothing but the frozen past intentions !
शद्वादीभः पञ्चभिरेव पञ्च
पञ्चत्वमापुः स्वगुणेन बद्धाः। कुरङ्गमातङ्गपतङ्गमीन
भृङ्गा नरः पञ्चभिरश्चितः किम् ॥७६॥
