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764. Swargapavargadha
She who gives heaven and the way to it.
She gives svarga or heaven and liberation. Svarga or heaven is a respite for the soul, if the soul is embedded with good karmic account. Apart from pains or pleasures through the gross forms that souls manifest, they have to undergo pains and pleasures in hell or heaven. Kṛṣṇa says in Bhagavad Gīta "Having enjoyed the extensive heaven world, they return to this world of mortals on the stock of their merits being exhausted."
Svarga is heaven and apavarga means liberation, the emancipation of the soul from bodily existence, exempted from further transmigration also known as mokṣa. Liberation is of two types. One is jīvanmukti which means he attains liberation when he is alive. Another is videhamukti which means liberation after death. Both these liberations can be attained only through knowledge. A jīvanmukta, however may still posses subtle hidden seeds of past actions that have not been totally destroyed by the fires of the wisdom. Some of them destroy these remnants of past material karma by certain work in the astral cosmos.
[For further reading: It is said that souls take strange forms in heaven or hell. It is also explained that such forms do not have mouths to eat and drink. They feed themselves through their nose. It is also said that they are fond of smell arising from roasting sesame seeds (It is known as til seeds or sesamum indicum). Annual ceremonial rites for ancestors are performed to appease the souls of the ancestors. During such rituals, sesame seeds are used to invoke the souls.)
She who gives heaven and the way to it.
She gives svarga or heaven and liberation. Svarga or heaven is a respite for the soul, if the soul is embedded with good karmic account. Apart from pains or pleasures through the gross forms that souls manifest, they have to undergo pains and pleasures in hell or heaven. Kṛṣṇa says in Bhagavad Gīta "Having enjoyed the extensive heaven world, they return to this world of mortals on the stock of their merits being exhausted."
Svarga is heaven and apavarga means liberation, the emancipation of the soul from bodily existence, exempted from further transmigration also known as mokṣa. Liberation is of two types. One is jīvanmukti which means he attains liberation when he is alive. Another is videhamukti which means liberation after death. Both these liberations can be attained only through knowledge. A jīvanmukta, however may still posses subtle hidden seeds of past actions that have not been totally destroyed by the fires of the wisdom. Some of them destroy these remnants of past material karma by certain work in the astral cosmos.
[For further reading: It is said that souls take strange forms in heaven or hell. It is also explained that such forms do not have mouths to eat and drink. They feed themselves through their nose. It is also said that they are fond of smell arising from roasting sesame seeds (It is known as til seeds or sesamum indicum). Annual ceremonial rites for ancestors are performed to appease the souls of the ancestors. During such rituals, sesame seeds are used to invoke the souls.)