Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.149.4

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For it is for my sake that the excellent one is being burned by hell fire.’ Yama spoke: ‘None other but the doer ever enjoys the fruit of the work. Here (in heaven) the fruits of thy deeds are seen, O best of those that speak.’ Somaka spoke: ‘I crave not for the holy and heavenly worlds without the knower of the Veda, only with him will I dwell in the abode of the gods or in hell, O king of justice; for I am the same as he is in the work. Let the fruit of the good or of the evil work be alike then for us both.’ Yama spoke: ‘If thou so wishest, O king, then enjoy together with him the fruit of the work which he reaps, and for the same length of time. After that thou wilt come unto the place of the good.’ Then did the lotus-eyed king do this all, and when his sin was blotted out, he was set free from there with his Guru. He came together with this Guru into that pure heavenly joy which he had won for himself through his deeds, he who loved his Guru.”²