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Manusmriti: The Laws of Manu |
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But if it chiefly cleaves to vice and to virtue in a small degree,
it suffers, deserted by the elements, the torments inflicted by Yama.
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The individual soul, having endured those torments of Yama, again
enters, free from taint, those very five elements, each in due
proportion. 23.
Let (man), having recognised even by means of his intellect these
transitions of the individual soul (which depend) on merit and
demerit, always fix his heart on (the acquisition of) merit. 24.
Know Goodness (sattva), Activity (ragas), and Darkness (tamas) to be
the three qualities of the Self, with which the Great One always
completely pervades all existences. 25. When one of these qualities wholly predominates in a body, then it makes the embodied (soul) eminently distinguished for that quality.
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