Shloka 25
Abhaya-Itihāsa: Karma, Indriyas, and the Non-sensory Brahman
Brāhmaṇī–Brāhmaṇa Saṃvāda
हविर्भूता गुणा: सर्वे प्रविशन्त्यग्निजं गुणम् | अन्तर्वासमुषित्वा च जायन्ते स्वासु योनिषु,“इनके जो समस्त गुण हैं, वे हविष्यरूप हैं। जो अग्निजनित गुण (बुद्धिवृत्ति)-में प्रवेश करते हैं। वे अन्तःकरणमें संस्काररूपसे रहकर अपनी योनियोंमें जन्म लेते हैं
havirbhūtā guṇāḥ sarve praviśanty agnijaṃ guṇam | antarvāsaṃ uṣitvā ca jāyante svāsu yoniṣu ||
Vāyu-deva said: “All the qualities (guṇas) become, as it were, oblations. Entering the fire-born quality—namely the mental function arising from the inner ‘fire’ of cognition—they dwell within as latent impressions. After residing there, they are born again in their respective wombs (origins), according to their own nature.”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches that tendencies (guṇas) do not vanish; they are ‘offered’ into an inner transformative fire, remain as latent impressions (saṃskāras) in the inner instrument, and later manifest as rebirth in corresponding forms—highlighting moral causality and continuity of character across lives.
Vāyu-deva is explaining a subtle doctrine: how qualities and dispositions enter an inner, fire-like cognitive principle, persist invisibly within, and then re-emerge as embodied birth in appropriate wombs, aligning the listener’s understanding of action, disposition, and consequence.