The Pure Spiritual Science
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The moment to leave his body.

His last hour came, he saw the envoys of the lord of death coming towards him, their eyes injected with anger. Invaded by fear, he urinates and defecates.

The soul can know two forms of transmigration after leaving its present body. A kind of transmigration consists in going to the one who judges sinful acts, and who is called Yamaraja. The other is to go to the upper planets, or to Vaikuntha. Sri Kapila (avatar) explains here how the Yamaraja envoys, the Yamadutas, treat people who, in order to maintain a family, are absorbed in activities aimed at the pleasures of the senses. At the moment of death, those who have fought to satisfy their material desires are placed under the guard of the Yamadutas, agents of the Lord of death. They take the dying man and take him to the planet where Yamaraja resides, the Lord of death and the judge. The conditions to which he is then subject are described in the following verses. Just as a criminal is arrested by the public force to undergo his punishment, the man who has committed himself in a criminal way to the pleasure of the senses is seized by the Yamadutas who tie him by the neck with solid ropes and cover his body Subtle (ethereal) to suffer a severe punishment.

Each living being is covered with a subtle body and a coarse body. The subtle body consists of the mind, the intelligence, the false ego and the consciousness. Yet the Scriptures report that the agents of Yamaraja cover the subtle body of the criminal and take him before Yamaraja so that he may be inflicted a punishment which he can tolerate. He must not die of his punishment, for if he should die, who would suffer for his sins?

It is not within the purview of Yamaraja's agents to kill anyone. In any case, it is impossible to kill the soul, of eternal nature. The distinct being must simply suffer the consequences of the faults he has committed in trying to satisfy his senses.

It appears here that by passing from our planet to that of Yamaraja, the criminal arrested by the envoys of Yamaraja is attacked by many dogs who bark and bite him for the sole purpose of reminding him of the guilty acts to which he has committed himself The pleasure of the senses. The Lord teaches in this connection that the being becomes practically blind and deprived of all reason when the burning desire to enjoy his senses rises in him. Then he forgets everything, attracted excessively by material pleasures, the being loses all intelligence, and forgets that he will have to suffer the consequences of his actions. Now, we see here that the dogs in the service of Yamaraja allow the fallen being to recall his guilty acts. Indeed, while we live in the gross body, we are encouraged to enjoy material pleasure, by the very governments

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