Bhagavad-gita As It Is | Part [BG.15.11]
TEXT 10:
utkramantam sthitam vapi
bhunjanam va gunanvitam
vimudha nanupasyanti
pasyanti jnana-cakshushah
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-cakshushah 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
Krishna 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 Krishna conscious and liberate themselves to transfer
to the spiritual world.
Translation and commentary by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupada
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Yours
Dinesh
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