S'rî
S'uka said: 'In this [narration] I have elaborately
described the Supreme Lord Hari, the Soul of Everyone from
whose grace Lord Brahmâ was
born
[3.8]
from whose anger Lord S'iva [3.12:
7] took
birth.
S'rî
S'uka said: 'Already I have elaborately described the
Supreme Lord Hari, the Soul of Everyone from the
satisfaction of whom Lord Brahmâ was born
[3.8] from whose anger S'iva [3.12: 7] took
birth. (Vedabase)
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2
O
King, you who think 'I am going to die', must give up this
animalistic mentality; contrary to the body
that didn't exist
before and shall perish again you never took your birth nor
will you ever be destroyed [see also B.G.
2:
12
&
2:
20].
O
King, you, thinking 'I am going to die', must give up this
animalistic mentality; you were not born in the past, nor
are you nonexistent today, nor will you, like the body is,
be destroyed [see also B.G. 2: 12 & 2: 20].
(Vedabase)
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3
You will not
get a new life as a child of yours or in the form of a
grandchild the way a plant sprouts from its own seed; you
differ from the body and what belongs to it as much as fire
[differs from the wood in which it is found
*].
You
will, like a sprout from a seed, not come into being
becoming your children or assume the form of your
grandchildren and so on; you are as distinct from the body
and what belomngs to it as fire is [different from the
wood in which it is found *].
(Vedabase)
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4
Because one,
alike in a dream seeing one's head cut off, is the witness of
one's own self composed of the five material elements, is
therefore the body it's soul undoubtedly unborn and immortal
[see also B.G.2:
22].
Because
one, alike in a dream seeing one's head cut off, is the
witness of one's own self composed of the five material
elements, is therefore the body it's soul undoubtedly unborn
and immortal [see also B.G. 2: 22].
(Vedabase)
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5
When a pot is
broken the air in the pot remains the air as before; similarly
returns, when the body is given up, the individual soul to his
spiritual origin.
When
a pot is broken the air in the pot remains the air as
before; similarly returns, when the body is given up, the
individual soul to his spiritual origin [brahma].
(Vedabase)
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6
The physical
bodies, qualities and actions of the spirit soul are the result
of having a materially oriented mind; and it is
mâyâ, the illusory potency of the Lord, that
brings about the mind with the consequent material existence of
an individual living being [through ahankâra,
see also 2.5:
25,
3.26:
31-32,
3.27:
2-5].
The
mind is causal to the bodies, the qualities and the
activities of the soul; while it is mâyâ, the
illusory potency of the Lord, that brings about the mind
[through ahamkara] and thus the material existence
of the individual living being[see also 2.5: 25, 3.26:
31-32, 3.27: 2-5]. (Vedabase)
Text
7
The combination
of oil, a vessel, a wick and fire is what one sees together in
the functioning of a lamp, similarly one finds, developed and
destroyed by the action of the modes of passion, ignorance and
goodness, the material existence of [an individual soul
inhabiting] a functioning body.
The
combination of oil, a vessel, a wick and fire is what one
sees together in the functioning of a lamp, similarly is
there, developed and destroyed by the action of the modes of
passion, ignorance and goodness, the material existence of
[an individual soul to] a functioning body.
(Vedabase)
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8
The soul being
different from the gross [deha]
and the subtle [linga],
is self-luminous, and constitutes, because it is as unchanging
as the sky, the foundation [âdhâra]
that is eternal and beyond comparison.
The
soul, that is not there as the gross [deha] or the
subtle [linga], is self-luminous, and thus, as
unchanging as the sky, the basis
[âdhâra] eternal and beyond comparison.
(Vedabase)
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9
O prabhu, this
way in meditation upon Vâsudeva engaging your
intelligence for the sake of that what is true, you should
carefully consider your essence that is covered by your
physical frame.
O
prabhu, this way in meditation upon Vâsudeva engaging
your intelligence in logical reasoning, consider carefully
your true self and how it with your mind is situated within
the bodily covering. (Vedabase)
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10
Takshaka
[the snake-bird] sent by the words of the
brahmin
[1.18]
will not burn you; the messengers of death cannot supersede you
who [now] have mastered the causes of death and death
itself
[see also
11.31:
12].
Takshaka
[the snake-bird] sent by the words of the brahmin
[1.18] will not burn you; consider carefully your
true self and how it by your mind is situated within your
physical frame [see also 11.31: 12].
(Vedabase)
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11-12
'I
am the Original Supreme Spirit, the Abode of the Absolute and
the Supreme Destination'; with this consideration placing
yourself within the Supreme Self that is free from material
designations, you will, with the entire world thus set apart
from the self, not even notice Takshaka or your own body when
he, licking his lips and with his mouth full of poison, bites
your foot.
'I
am the Original Spirit Supreme, the Abode of the Absolute, I
am the Supreme Destination'; with this consideration placing
yourself within the Supreme Self free from material
designations, will you, with the entire world thus separate
from the self, not even notice Takshaka and your body when
he, licking his lips and with his mouth full of poison,
bites your foot. (Vedabase)
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13
Dearest
soul, is there anything more you want to know, o King, after
all that I in response to your questions told you about the
pastimes of the Lord?'
My
dear, what do you more want to hear to this what I to your
questions, o King, narrated of the pastimes of the Lord?'
(Vedabase)
*
In the s'ruti-mantra it is said: pitâ putrena
pitrimân yoni-yonau: "A father has a father in his
son, because he may take birth as his own grandson."