The Religions of India

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30), i.e., this heaven will pass away at the end of the world-period, when the Eternal draws all in to him- self again (iii. 261); and the thought that one has been in heaven, while now he is (re-born) on earth, is a sorrow greater than the joy given by heaven.^ 1 Compare ii. 22. iS : " Great holiness, great glory, penance, death in battle, these are each respectively productive of heaven ; the last alone is a sure cause." 2 This description and the sentiments are quite late. The same sort of h...eaven (without the philosophical bitterness, with which compare above, p. 229) is, however, found in other passages, somewhat augmented with nymphs and facile goddesses.
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One is reminded by the epic description of heaven of that poet of the Upanishads who describes his heavenly bliss as consisting in the fact that in that world " there is neither snow nor sorrow." The later version is only an amplification.
Even with the assurance that the "fault of heaven " is the dis- appointment of being dropped to earth again in 3, new birth, the ordinary mortal is more averse from the bliss of absorption than from the pleasure of heaven.


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