3.WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ARE NOT WILLING TO FOLLOW EITHER PATHS?

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Those reluctant  to follow either paths:-


The destiny of those who are not following either the 'Path of Meditation (renunciation) or the 'Path of Action'? The Upanisad declares that, having born as man, an individual [ or society or community or nation] who refuses to live either the life of meditation or the life of intense and continuous activity, is to be considered as a suicide. 


Such nation must necessarily come to fall into an abyss of darkness and despair. The individual {or community} should thereafter, certainly, come to experience a terrible fall in its cultural and spiritual eminence.


"Sun-less-world":-


This fall into decay and death is hinted at here by the term 'the sun-less-worlds'. A land where sun never seen, there will not be any life. When those people who do not follow either path straight away thrown into these lands, there they will decay and meet death at the end. If a nation is full of these type of people, the nation will decay due to absence of sun, and dark age falls on this country.


Blinding Darkness ( andhena tamasa):-


Here, in ignorance, people live in darkness, it may be considered as living in blinding darkness


Slayers of their souls:-


These people who are reluctant to live either ways, are labelled as Self-destroyers or suicides ( Atma-hanah). Identifying with the body, we kill the Divinity in us. Those who destroy their self in them, meaning 'those who  cloud its brilliancy by mental agitations and consequent  false values of life are called slayers of their souls.


Janah:-


These people suffering failures, sorrows, dejection and despairs, the man (jana) again dies, to be reborn again in other environments with the required vehicle  to fulfill their life and its inner urges. Those, who thus caught in the wheel of life-death-and-life again, are called JANAH.         

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