Chapter 16 verse 19-20
“These cruel and hateful persons, the vile and vicious of humankind, I constantly hurl into the wombs of those with similar demonic natures in the cycle of rebirth in the material world. These ignorant souls take birth again and again in demonic wombs. Failing to reach me, O Arjuna, they gradually sink to the most abominable type of existence.”
In
sanatana dharma scriptures, there are 14 lokas-7 upper lokas or realms and 7
lower realms. These present a spectrum of 14 possibilities to traverse
individual soul’s journey. There is a good mix of free will of each of the
individual soul-jivatma within the construct of laws of karma, universe and God’s
grace. There is always a consequence of all of our actions but instead of
condemning us to eternal hell, God in his infinite grace can lift us out of
despair when we surrender to His ways. The only permanence in this cycle of
life and death with some interludes of body less soul state is enlightenment. “What
we sow, so we reap”. It is possible to have lower births in non human souls
with no option to gather merit and only to exhaust our demonic tendencies for
multiple lifetimes. Part of this statement is designed to wake both Arjuna and
reader/listener out of deep slumber and rut. Bhagwan definitely have got our
attention here !
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