Srimad-Bhagavatam Canto 4 ( Ch 29 )

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Srimad-Bhagavatam Canto 4 ( Ch 29 )

 

TEXT 74

 

Talks Between Narada and King Pricinabarhi

 

anena puruso dehan

upadatte vimuncati

harsam sokam bhayam duhkham

sukham canena vindati

 

anena-by this process; purusah-the living entity; dehan-gross bodies;

upadatte-achieves; vimuncati-gives up; harsam-enjoy­ment; sokam-

lamentation; bhayam - fear; duhkham- unhappiness; sukham-happiness;

ca-also; anena-by the gross body; vindati- enjoys.

 

TRANSLATION

 

By virtue of the processes of the subtle body, the living en­tity

develops and gives up gross bodies. This is known as the

transmigration of the soul. Thus the soul becomes subjected to

different types of so-called enjoyment, lamentation, fear , happi­ness

and unhappiness.

 

PURPORT

According to this explanation, one can clearly understand that

originally the living entity was as good as the Supreme Personality

of Godhead in his pure, spiritual existence. However, when the mind

be­comes polluted by desires for sense gratification in the material

world, the living entity drops into the material conditions, as

explained in this verse. Thus he begins his material existence, which

means that he transmigrates from one body to another and becomes more

and more en­tangled in material existence. The process of Krsna

consciousness, by which one always thinks of Krsna is the

transcendental process by which one can revert to his original,

spiritual existence. Devotional service means always thinking of Krsna

 

man-mana bhava mad-bhakto

mad -yaji mam namaskuru

mam evaisyasi satyam te

pratijane priyo `si me

 

"Always think of Me and become My devotee. Worship Me and offer

your homage unto Me. Thus you will come to Me without fail. I promise

you this because you are My very dear friend." (Bg. 18.65)

One should always engage in the Lord's devotional service. As recom­

mended in the arcana-marga, one should worship the Deity in the tem­

ple and constantly offer obeisances to the spiritual master and the

Deity. These processes are recommended to one who actually wants to

become free from material entanglement. Modern psychologists can

study the ac­tions of the mind-thinking, feeling and willing-but they

are unable to go deep into the matter. This is due to their lack of

knowledge and to their not being associated with a liberated acarya

As stated in Bhagavad-gita (4.2):

 

evam parampara-praptam

imam rajarsayo viduh

sa kaleneha mahata

yogo nastah parantapa

 

"This supreme science was thus received through the chain of

disciplic succession, and the saintly kings understood it in that

way. But in course of time the succession was broken, and therefore

the science as it is ap­pears to be lost." Guided by so-called

psychologists and philosophers, people in the modern age do not know

of the activities of the subtle body and thus cannot understand what

is meant by the transmigration of the soul. In these matters we have

to take the authorized statements of Bhagavad-gita(2.13):

dehino `smin yatha dehe

kaumaram yauvanam jara

tatha dehantara-praptir

dhiras tatra na muhyati

 

"As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood

to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at

death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change."

Unless all human society understands this important verse in

Bhagavad-gita, civilization will advance in ignorance, not in

knowledge.

 

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