Shloka 25
Abhaya-Itihāsa: Karma, Indriyas, and the Non-sensory Brahman
Brāhmaṇī–Brāhmaṇa Saṃvāda
हविर्भूता गुणा: सर्वे प्रविशन्त्यग्निजं गुणम् | अन्तर्वासमुषित्वा च जायन्ते स्वासु योनिषु
havirbhūtā guṇāḥ sarve praviśanty agnijaṃ guṇam | antarvāsaṃ uṣitvā ca jāyante svāsu yoniṣu ||
Vāyu-deva dit : «Toutes les qualités (guṇa) deviennent, pour ainsi dire, des oblations. Entrant dans la qualité née du feu—c’est-à-dire la fonction mentale issue du feu intérieur de la cognition—elles demeurent au-dedans comme des impressions latentes (saṃskāra). Après y avoir séjourné, elles renaissent dans leurs yoni (origines) respectifs, selon leur propre 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.