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 ||
风神伐由说道:“一切诸德性(guṇa)皆如供献之物。它们进入‘由火而生的德性’——即由认知之内火所生的心之作用——在内中以潜在印记(saṃskāra)而住。既住其间,便依其自性,于各自之胎源(yoni)中再度出生。”
वायुदेव उवाच
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.