BHAGAVAD-GITA 13:28

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 13:28

 

samam sarvesu bhutesu

tisthantam paramesvaram

vinasyatsv avinasyantam

yah pasyati sa pasyati

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

samam--equally; sarvesu--in all; bhutesu--living entities;

tisthantam--residing; parama-isvaram--the Supersoul; vinasyatsu--in

the destructible; avinasyantam--not destroyed; yah--anyone who;

pasyati--sees; sah--he; pasyati--actually sees.

 

TRANSLATION

 

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all

bodies, and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul

within the destructible body is ever destroyed, actually sees.

 

PURPORT

 

Anyone who by good association can see three things combined

together--the body, the proprietor of the body, or individual soul,

and the friend of the individual soul--is actually in knowledge.

Unless one has the association of a real knower of spiritual subjects,

one cannot see these three things. Those who do not have such

association are ignorant; they simply see the body, and they think

that when the body is destroyed everything is finished. But actually

it is not so. After the destruction of the body, both the soul and the

Supersoul exist, and they go on eternally in many various moving and

nonmoving forms. The Sanskrit word paramesvara is sometimes translated

as "the individual soul" because the soul is the master of the body

and after the destruction of the body he transfers to another form. In

that way he is master. But there are others who interpret this

paramesvara to be the Supersoul. In either case, both the Supersoul

and the individual soul continue. They are not destroyed. One who can

see in this way can actually see what is happening.

 

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