The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v2.c40.s10.96

v2.c40.s10.96

The later literature, by no means in harmony with the principles of Karman, assumes that great importance attaches to the thought which is in the mind of man in the moment of death,¹ and we find a faint premonition of this view in the insistence laid in the Praçna Upaniṣad² that man's thought determines his next life. Possibly a similar conception may underlie the prayer put by the Īçā Upaniṣad³ in the mouth of the dying man.