BHAGAVAD-GITA 13:31

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 13:31

 

yada bhuta-prthag-bhavam

eka-stham anupasyati

tata eva ca vistaram

brahma sampadyate tada

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

yada--when; bhuta--of living entities; prthak-bhavam--separated

identities; eka-stham--situated in one; anupasyati--one tries to see

through authority; tatah eva--thereafter; ca--also; vistaram--the

expansion; brahma--the Absolute; sampadyate--he attains; tada--at that

time.

 

TRANSLATION

 

When a sensible man ceases to see different identities due to

different material bodies and he sees how beings are expanded

everywhere, he attains to the Brahman conception.

 

PURPORT

 

When one can see that the various bodies of living entities arise due

to the different desires of the individual soul and do not actually

belong to the soul itself, one actually sees. In the material

conception of life, we find someone a demigod, someone a human being,

a dog, a cat, etc. This is material vision, not actual vision. This

material differentiation is due to a material conception of life.

After the destruction of the material body, the spirit soul is one.

The spirit soul, due to contact with material nature, gets different

types of bodies. When one can see this, he attains spiritual vision;

thus being freed from differentiations like man, animal, big, low,

etc., one becomes purified in his consciousness and able to develop

Krsna consciousness in his spiritual identity. How he then sees things

will be explained in the next verse.

 

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