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Yoga Vashishtha 3.55.16–30
(These verses explain what happens to the soul right after death, based on the person's past actions and hidden mental tendencies called vasanas)
श्रीदेव्युवाच ।
अथवा मृतिमोहान्ते जडदुःखशताकुलाम्।
क्षणाद्वृक्षादितामेव हृत्स्थामनुभवन्ति ते ॥ १६॥
स्ववासनानुरूपाणि दुःखानि नरके पुनः।
अनुभूयाथ योनीषु जायन्ते भूतले चिरात् ॥ १७॥
अथ मध्यमपापो यो मृतिमोहादनन्तरम्।
सशिलाजठरं जाड्यं कंचित्कालं प्रपश्यति ॥ १८॥
ततः प्रबुद्धः कालेन केनचिद्वा तदैव वा।
तिर्यगादिक्रमैर्भुक्त्वा योनीः संसारमेष्यति ॥ १९॥
मृत एवानुभवति कश्चित्सामान्यपातकी।
स्ववासनानुसारेण देहं संपन्नमक्षतम् ॥ २०॥
स स्वप्न इव संकल्प इव चेतति तादृशम्।
तस्मिन्नेव क्षणे तस्य स्मृतिरित्थमुदेति च ॥ २१॥
ये तूत्तममहापुण्या मृतिमोहादनन्तरम्।
स्वर्गविद्याधरपुरं स्मृत्या स्वनुभवन्ति ते ॥ २२॥
ततोऽन्यकर्मसदृशं भुक्त्वान्यत्र फलं निजम्।
जायन्ते मानुषे लोके सश्रीके सज्जनास्पदे ॥ २३॥
ये च मध्यमधर्माणो मृतिमोहादनन्तरम्।
ते व्योमवायुवलिताः प्रयान्त्योषधिपल्लवम् ॥ २४॥
तत्र चारुफलं भुक्त्वा प्रविश्य हृदयं नृणाम्।
रेतसामधितिष्ठन्ति गर्भे जातिक्रमोचिते ॥ २५॥
स्ववासनानुसारेण प्रेता एतां व्यवस्थितिम्।
मूर्च्छान्तेऽनुभवन्त्यन्तः क्रमेणैवाक्रमेण च ॥ २६॥
आदौ मृता वयमिति बुध्यन्ते तदनुक्रमात्।
बन्धुपिण्डादिदानेन प्रोत्पन्ना इति वेदिनः ॥ २७॥
ततो यमभटा एते कालपाशान्विता इति।
नीयमानः प्रयाम्येभिः क्रमाद्यमपुरं त्विति ॥ २८॥
उद्यानानि विमानानि शोभनानि पुनःपुनः।
स्वकर्मभिरुपात्तानि दिव्यानीत्येव पुण्यवान् ॥ २९॥
हिमानीकण्टकश्वभ्रशस्त्रपत्रवनानि च।
स्वकर्मदुष्कृतोत्थानि संप्राप्तानीति पापवान् ॥ ३०॥
The Goddess continued:
3.55.16–21
> Or else, after the delusion of death ends, they immediately experience in their heart a dull state filled with hundreds of pains, like becoming a tree or something similar.
> According to their own mental impressions, they experience sufferings again in hell. Then they are born in wombs on earth after a long time.
> Now, one who has medium sins, right after the delusion of death, sees for some time a dullness like being in a stony womb.
> Then, awakened by time or by someone, having experienced births in animal forms and others in sequence, he enters the world of samsara.
> Some ordinary sinner experiences even in death a complete and intact body according to his own mental impressions.
> He becomes conscious of such a thing like a dream or imagination. In that very moment, such a memory arises in him.
3.55.22–30
> But those with supreme great merits, after the delusion of death, experience through memory the heaven and the city of vidyadharas.
> Then, having enjoyed fruits similar to their other karmas elsewhere, they are born in the human world in a prosperous place with good people.
> And those with medium dharma, after the delusion of death, go to the tender shoots of herbs, carried by sky and wind.
> There, enjoying beautiful fruits, they enter the hearts of humans and reside in the semen in a womb suitable for their birth order.
> According to their own mental impressions, the departed souls experience this arrangement internally after fainting, either in order or without order.
> At first they understand that we have died. Then gradually they know that they have been produced through offerings of pinda and such by relatives.
> Then these are Yama's messengers with the noose of Time. Being led by them, they go to Yama's city in sequence.
> The virtuous person thinks again and again that these beautiful gardens and divine vehicles have been obtained by his own good deeds.
> The sinful person thinks that these snowy areas with thorns, pits, weapons, and sword forests have been obtained due to his evil deeds.
Summary of the Teachings:
Souls with a lot of bad karma first go through a confusing State at death. They then feel intense but dull pain, as if they have turned into lifeless things like trees. This happens instantly in their subtle heart or mind. For people with heavy sins, they suffer in hell according to their tendencies.
Later, they take birth in different animal or human bodies on earth after a long wait. Those with medium level sins experience a period of dullness like being stuck in a stone womb for some time. They wake up eventually and go through lower life forms before returning to human life. Ordinary sinners may feel they have a full body even after death, based on their vasanas. They become aware of their new situation like in a dream, and memories of it come up right away.
People with medium good deeds are taken by winds and sky to plant forms after death. They enjoy nice fruits there and then move into human reproduction by staying in semen and entering suitable wombs for rebirth. Highly virtuous people with great merits experience heavenly worlds and beautiful cities of celestial beings right after death's confusion ends, all through their memories. They enjoy the results of their good karma in other places first. Then they are born in comfortable human families in the world, among good and prosperous people.
The verses teach that all these after-death experiences happen inside the soul after it faints or loses Consciousness,
following the order set by their vasanas or sometimes without clear order. Souls first realize they are dead, then understand they are reborn due to family rituals. They see Yama's servants taking them to his city.
Good people see lovely gardens and flying cars as rewards of their deeds, while bad people see scary places full of pain as results of their sins. This shows that the afterlife is created by one's own mind and actions, teaching us to live righteously for a better journey after death.
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