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→Virtues, qualities and life span of living beings before Tretayuga
At the end of the ''satyayuga'', however, some affluent people started gaining heaviness in their bodies due to over-indulgence in food. They started suffering from fatigue in lieu of this. Fatigue gave rise to laziness, and laziness made them to accumulate things; accumulation led to the attachment for these things and attachment resulted in greed.
At the end of the ''satyayuga'', however, some affluent people started gaining heaviness in their bodies due to over-indulgence in food. They started suffering from fatigue in lieu of this. Fatigue gave rise to laziness, and laziness made them to accumulate things; accumulation led to the attachment for these things and attachment resulted in greed.
=== Virtues, qualities and life span of living beings before Tretayuga ===
=== Virtues, qualities and life span of living beings in Tretayuga ===
Human beings
Human beings
== Role of karma in deciding life span or death ==
== Role of karma in deciding life span or death ==
It is said that the Ayu of living beings is based on yukti. The strength and weakness of yukti is a compound of Daiva and Purushakara. Daiva means one’s own deeds in the previous life while purushakara stands for one’s actions (deeds) in this life. Thus one's deeds in this as well as in previous life are considered to be the deciding factors of one's life span in this life.
तं भगवानुवाच- इहाग्निवेश! भूतानामायुर्युक्तिमपेक्षते| दैवे पुरुषकारे च स्थितं ह्यस्य बलाबलम्||२९||
स्मृतः पुरुषकारस्तु क्रियते यदिहापरम्||३०||
दैवमात्मकृतं विद्यात् कर्म यत् पौर्वदैहिकम्| स्मृतः पुरुषकारस्तु क्रियते यदिहापरम्||३०||
Further, the 3 types of karmas have also been described in Charaka Samhita. Karma could be superior, medium or inferior in type. When karmas of previous as well as present life are superior in quality the result is long and happy life. On the similar lines, if ones karmas are of inferior nature, his life would be short, unhappy and the lifespan would be undetermined.
=== The interplay between Daiva, Purushakara and life span ===
दैवं पुरुषकारेण दुर्बलं ह्युपहन्यते||३३||
दैवेन चेतरत् कर्म विशिष्टेनोपहन्यते| दृष्ट्वा यदेके मन्यन्ते नियतं मानमायुषः||३४||
कर्म किञ्चित् क्वचित् काले विपाके नियतं महत्| किञ्चित्त्वकालनियतं प्रत्ययैः प्रतिबोध्यते||३५||
A weak ''daiva'' gets subdued by a strong ''purushakara''. Similarly a strong daiva overshadows one’s ''purushakara'' and because of this, some scholars hold the view that the span of life is invariably predetermined. There are some powerful actions whose implementation takes place at a predetermined time, but there is another kind of action whose implementation is not predetermined and gets manifested in an appropriate atmosphere.
== Indeterminate nature of life span ==
== Indeterminate nature of life span ==
एकोत्तरं मृत्युशतमथर्वाणः प्रचक्षते ||६||
एकोत्तरं मृत्युशतमथर्वाणः प्रचक्षते ||६||
तत्रैकः कालसंयुक्तः <sup>[१]</sup> शेषा आगन्तवः स्मृताः |७| (Su su 34/7)
तत्रैकः कालसंयुक्तः शेषा आगन्तवः स्मृताः |७| (Su su 34/7)
=== Kala Mrtyu ===
=== Kala Mrtyu ===