Lecture Lahore — Page 33
33 mukt i —undoubtedly depends upon God-realization— gay a n —and if this is what transmigration is meant to achieve, then why is it that a soul loses all the stock of knowledge and awareness it has so laboriously earned in its past lives, and without which there can be no question of salvation. We see that every child comes into the world ut- terly devoid of knowledge, just like a spendthrift who has squandered away all his fortune and finds himself penni- less. Even if one has read the Vedas a thousand times in his previous life, he will not remember even a page of it. It is hard to see how a soul can ever be delivered from the cycle of transmigration when it keeps losing all its stock of knowledge and awareness acquired in its past lives. The souls are indeed ill-fated, for they do not only lack God-realization— gay a n —to become deserving of salva- tion, but, according to the A rya belief, their salvation also lasts a short period of time after which they are thrown back into the cycle of transmigration. Neug is yet another aspect of the A rya doctrine which is contrary to the purity of the human soul. I would never attribute this doctrine to the Vedas, and I believe that hu- man conscience can never allow a man to make his chaste wife, who has her honour and comes of a respectable fam- ily, to sleep with another man merely in order to procure progeny. Nor do I think it proper for a woman to desire such a thing while her husband is yet alive. Let alone hu- mans, even some animals have a sense of honour whereby they do not allow their females to mate with anyone else.