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Samsara
Even in this case, there is no freedom on the part of the doers of action and the experiencers of pleasure and pain. What high purpose would then fall to the lot of one who is not independent? Who, in seeking his highest goal or good, would worship one who is dependent on others?
There is no happiness even to learned men, and ignorant people are sometimes without the least misery. There is only egoism on the part of those who think they are happy on account of their skill in performing Vedic Karmas. It is mere vanity to speak about the efficacy of Karma. Even if they know how to attain pleasure and destroy misery, they certainly do not know the means by which they can get over death. When death is near at hand, what objects of enjoyment can give pleasure to man? Nothing gives pleasure to one who is being conducted to the place of execution.
The enjoyments in heaven promised by the Vedas are also transient. They are not unalloyed pleasures. Even in Svarga, there are jealousy, rivalry, destruction, decay, fault-finding, inequalities and consequent uneasiness. There is an end for the enjoyments. As the desire for attaining the
enjoyments of heaven is attended by various obstacles, it is fruitless like agriculture. Therefore even Svarga is of no good.
The man who has propitiated the gods by sacrifices goes to the Heaven acquired by such sacrifices, and enjoys the celestial pleasures like a Deva. He puts on beautiful dress and moves in the aerial car [1], acquired by his own good actions, in the company of celestial nymphs and is praised by Gandharvas. The chariot moves at his will. It is adorned with little bells. He whiles away his time with the celestial damsels in the gardens of the gods and does not think of his fall. He enjoys in heaven till the merits of his good actions are exhausted. When the merit is exhausted, he falls down by the force of time even against his will.
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