To the later sage, length of life is undesirable).

But in yonder world, where the sun itself is death, the soul dies again and again.

All those on the other side of the sun, the gods, are immortal; but all those on this side are exposed to this death.

When the sun wishes, he draws out the vitality of any one, and then that one dies; not once, but, being drawn up by the sun, which is death, into the very realm of death (how different to the conception of the sun in the Rig Veda!) he dies over and over again.[58] But in another passage it is said that when the sacrificer is consecrated he 'becomes one of the deities'; and one even finds the doctrine that one obtains 'union with Brahm[=a],' which is quite in the strain of the Upanishads; but here such a saying can refer only to the upper castes, for "the gods talk only to the upper castes" (_Cal.

Br._.