BHAGAVAD-GITA 15:10

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 15:10

 

utkramantam sthitam vapi

bhunjanam va gunanvitam

vimudha nanupasyanti

pasyantijnana-caksusah

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

utkramantam--quitting the body; sthitam--situated in the body; va

api--either; bhunjanam--enjoying; va--or; guna-anvitam--under the

spell of the modes of material nature; vimnudhah--foolish persons;

na--never; anupasyanti--can see; pasyanti--can see;

jnana-caksusah--those who have the eyes of knowledge.

 

TRANSLATION

 

The foolish cannot understand how a living entity can quit his body,

nor can they understand what sort of body he enjoys under the spell of

the modes of nature. But one whose eyes are trained in knowledge can

see all this.

 

PURPORT

 

The word jnana-caksusah is very significant. Without knowledge, one

cannot understand how a living entity leaves his present body, nor

what form of body he is going to take in the next life, nor even why

he is living in a particular type of body. This requires a great

amount of knowledge understood from Bhagavad-gita and similar

literatures heard from a bona fide spiritual master. One who is

trained to perceive all these things is fortunate. Every living entity

is quitting his body under certain circumstances, he is living under

certain circumstances, and he is enjoying under certain circumstances

under the spell of material nature. As a result, he is suffering

different kinds of happiness and distress, under the illusion of sense

enjoyment. Persons who are everlastingly fooled by lust and desire

lose all power to understand their change of body and their stay in a

particular body. They cannot comprehend it. Those who have developed

spiritual knowledge, however, can see that the spirit is different

from the body and is changing its body and enjoying in different ways.

A person in such knowledge can understand how the conditioned living

entity is suffering in this material existence. Therefore those who

are highly developed in Krsna consciousness try their best to give

this knowledge to the people in general, for their conditional life is

very much troublesome. They should come out of it and be Krsna

conscious and liberate themselves to transfer to the spiritual world.

 

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