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    Panchagni Vidya or Jiva Gati After Death

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    The document discusses the "panchagni vidya" or the five fires doctrine from Hindu scripture. It explains that this doctrine outlines the five stages or locations a soul passes through after death before taking on a new body. At each location, the soul undergoes a transformation until after the fifth stage when it is ready to embody again. The document also provides background for the discussion, noting that it will be the topic of the first chapter and will involve a dialogue between the Brahmin Jaivali and Goutama on the nature of the five fires.

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    Panchagni Vidya or Jiva Gati After Death

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    The document discusses the "panchagni vidya" or the five fires doctrine from Hindu scripture. It explains that this doctrine outlines the five stages or locations a soul passes through after death before taking on a new body. At each location, the soul undergoes a transformation until after the fifth stage when it is ready to embody again. The document also provides background for the discussion, noting that it will be the topic of the first chapter and will involve a dialogue between the Brahmin Jaivali and Goutama on the nature of the five fires.

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    The document discusses the "panchagni vidya" or the five fires doctrine from Hindu scripture. It explains that this doctrine outlines the five stages or locations a soul passes through after death before taking on a new body. At each location, the soul undergoes a transformation until after the fifth stage when it is ready to embody again. The document also provides background for the discussion, noting that it will be the topic of the first chapter and will involve a dialogue between the Brahmin Jaivali and Goutama on the nature of the five fires.

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    Panchagni Vidya or Jiva Gati After Death

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    The document discusses the "panchagni vidya" or the five fires doctrine from Hindu scripture. It explains that this doctrine outlines the five stages or locations a soul passes through after death before taking on a new body. At each location, the soul undergoes a transformation until after the fifth stage when it is ready to embody again. The document also provides background for the discussion, noting that it will be the topic of the first chapter and will involve a dialogue between the Brahmin Jaivali and Goutama on the nature of the five fires.

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    The first pada deals with jiva Gathi the path of travel after death.

    this occurs
    in several places not only in vada anta paga but also in purva
    bagha. Vyasacharya deals with a particular portion occurring in
    Vedanta the pancagni vidya. It is dealt with in the entire pada. this occurs
    in two Upanishad one is Brihadharaynaka upanisad 6.2 and also it occurs in
    the 5th chapter section 3 to 10 of Chandogya upanisad. Vyasacharya takes
    the Chandogya upanisad portion.

    Until this pada is over I will request you to go through the Chandogya
    upanisad prakaranam. I will give you the essence of the panchagni vidya.
    Here Upanishad talks about the travel of jiva after giving up the body and
    until it take another body. This sastra alone is to be talked about because it
    is apourusheya vishaya. Until death what happens I can see. However, what
    happens after death I do not know what happens to me. The Upanishad
    points out that the departed jiva goes through five locations before
    becoming another embodies jivah once again. Each location is called an
    Agni figuratively. Therefore, five locations are called pancha agniyah. When
    the jiva passes through each location jiva gets particular transformation. It
    is not visible to us. apurusheya vishaya gets apourusheya transformation.
    Such tansformations we see even in our manufacture process. the
    raw materials go through several stages and ultimately comes
    through at the end a finished product which is completely different from the
    raw material fed at the beginning. Similar Bhagavan has got human
    assembly line with five locations. The five locations are enumerated as
    swarga, mega, bhoomi, Purusa, and nari.

    Jiva enters everyone and goes through transformation with additions and
    when it comes out of fifth Agni the cooking is complete.

    Transformation takes place with the help of Agni alone. Baby


    requires a temperature for ripening. Thus, all the five are like incubators or
    like womb and each one cooks jiva and well-cooked jiva is
    ready for the consumption ofsociety. vyavahara yogyatvam
    comes when the baby comes out after the fifth stage.
    Upanishad presents all of them a subject matter for meditation. Therefore,
    pacnha Agni vidya and vidya here means Upasanam. This comes in
    the form of a dialogue between jaivali goutama samvadha
    rupena in Chandogya upanisad.
    It is all about a story told in the Upanishad. Here Svetaketu, the son
    of Gautama after receiving complete teaching from his father goes to the
    king Jaivili and on reaching the kng asks the former five questions about
    pancha Agni vidya which Svetaketu could not answer. svetaketu
    gets humiliated and goes back to his father and asks him why he did not
    teach pancha Agni vidya. Gautama tells him that he himself did not know
    anything about the pancha Agni vidya and he goes to the king and request
    him to teach him the vidya. Thus the dialogue between Jaivili and Goutama
    takes place and the outcome of their dialogue is called pancha
    Agni vidya enumerated in the Chandogya upanisad.

    Here is an instance where the Brahmana goes to the ksatriya king to


    learn Pancha Agni vidya. This will be dealt with in the entire first pada. this
    pada has got six adhikaranams with 27 sutras. This is background of the first
    pada.

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