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The Yunyalīlta as preached by the Chlamiṣvatrā, born as a philosophy more than as a religion, does not speak on the theme of afterlife and rebirth: there is no mention to them in the Books of the Chlamiṣvatrā and, despite a few mentions in the ''Lallaṣvatrāṇāveyai'', there is no general consensus on the theme, with different monastic currents having their own beliefs. | The Yunyalīlta as preached by the Chlamiṣvatrā, born as a philosophy more than as a religion, does not speak on the theme of afterlife and rebirth: there is no mention to them in the Books of the Chlamiṣvatrā and, despite a few mentions in the ''Lallaṣvatrāṇāveyai'', there is no general consensus on the theme, with different monastic currents having their own beliefs. | ||
The common (non-monastic) Yunyalīlta considers the being to be the soul (''devoe''), and not the body (''mædhram''), which is just the vehicle that souls use to fulfill the Yunya's tasks. When the body dies, righteous souls - those who have not acted against the Yunya - remain in this world as ''paṣlilendevenī'' (sg. ''paṣlilendevoe'', literally "soul(s) beyond life"), who are basically spirits who, invisible to those souls who inhabit a living body, wander around as "little helping spirits" (there is no general consensus on what they actually do), waiting to be reborn. According to most people, fetuses are not alive when they start to form, because they lack a soul - it is when ''paṣlilendevenī'' help, or come in contact in some way, with a pregnant woman that they "choose" the soon-to-be-born as their new body; stillborn children are those that couldn't get any ''paṣlilendevoe'' into them. | The common (non-monastic) Yunyalīlta considers the being to be the soul (''devoe''), and not the body (''mædhram''), which is just the vehicle that souls use to fulfill the Yunya's tasks. When the body dies, righteous souls - those who have not acted against the Yunya - remain in this world as ''paṣlilendevenī'' (sg. ''paṣlilendevoe'', literally "soul(s) beyond life"), who are basically spirits who, invisible to those souls who inhabit a living body, wander around as "little helping spirits" (there is no general consensus on what they actually do), waiting to be reborn. According to most people, fetuses are not alive when they start to form, because they lack a soul - it is when ''paṣlilendevenī'' help, or come in contact in some way, with a pregnant woman that they "choose" the soon-to-be-born as their new body; stillborn children are those that couldn't get any ''paṣlilendevoe'' into them.<br/>According to Yunyalīlti beliefs, souls themselves come to exist in a soul world as children of ''kaihai'', enabling population to increase. | ||
==Sacred texts== | ==Sacred texts== | ||