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The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

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Chapter VI<br />

<strong>The</strong> Course after Death for the Illumined<br />

Now, those arteries of the heart are filled with the<br />

essences of brown, white, blue, yellow and red liquid<br />

substances. Verily, the sun yonder is brown, it is white,<br />

it is blue, it is yellow, it is red.<br />

2<br />

As a long highway runs between two villages, this one<br />

and that yonder, so do the rays of the sun go to both<br />

worlds, this one and that yonder. <strong>The</strong>y start from yonder<br />

sun and enter into these arteries; they start from these<br />

arteries and enter into yonder sun.<br />

3<br />

When a man is asleep, with the senses withdrawn and<br />

serene and sees no dream, then he has entered into these<br />

arteries. <strong>The</strong>n no evil touches him, for he has obtained<br />

the light of the sun.<br />

4<br />

And when he becomes weak, then those sitting around<br />

him say: "Do you know me? Do you know me?" As<br />

long as he has not departed from this body, he knows<br />

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