Adhikaraëa 5
The Same Person Returns to the Body
Introduction by Çréla Baladeva
Vidyäbhüñaëa
In the Chandogya
Upani//sad it is said:
sata/s c/agatya na vidu/h
"We had departed from
the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, but we did not know we had departed from the Supreme
Personality of Godhead."
Saàçaya
(doubt): Is the person awakening from the bed of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead the same person who first went to
sleep there, or is he a different person?
Pürvapakña
(the opponent speaks): It is not possible that
the soul, having attained the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
would again return to the same material body. Therefore it must
be a different soul that awakens.
Siddhänta
(conclusion): In the following words the author
of the sütras gives His conclusion.
Sütra 9
sa eva tu karm/anusm/rti-/sabda-vidhibhya/h
sas=he; eva - indeed;
tu=but; karma=karma; /anusm/rti=memory;
/sabda=of the Çruti-çästra; vidhibhya/h=from the
instructions.
It is he, because of the
memory of karma and because of the
teachings of Çruti-çästra.