Indian Philosophy v2.c27.s8.31
Indian Philosophy v2.c27.s8.31
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v2.c27.s8.31
While those who attain release escape from the world of saṃsāra, others pass on at death to a different existence, which is determined by the law of karma. At death the coarse body dissolves into its component parts, while the soul, clad in a body of fine imperceptible matter, together with the senses, goes either to the celestial regions, temporary hells, or gets into the luminous regions of the moon, where it stays for a time in accordance with its merit. Then it gets into the womb of the mother, where the soul's new earthly body is produced.⁷ Thus rebirth continues till the soul develops love or hatred for God to the fullest extent, when it is released or cast into hell.