TEXT 13
dehino 'smin yatha dehe
kaumaram yauvanam jara
tatha dehantara-praptir
dhiras tatra na muhyati
kaumaram yauvanam jara
tatha dehantara-praptir
dhiras tatra na muhyati
SYNONYMS
dehinah--of the embodied; asmin--in this; yatha--as; dehe--in the body; kaumaram--boyhood; yauvanam--youth; jara--old age; tatha--similarly; deha-antara--transference of the body; praptih--achievement; dhirah--the sober; tatra--thereupon; na--never; muhyati--deluded.
TRANSLATION
As
the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to
youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A
self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change.
PURPORT
Since
every living entity is an individual soul, each is changing his body
every moment, manifesting sometimes as a child, sometimes as a youth,
and sometimes as an old man. Yet the same spirit soul is there and does
not undergo any change. This individual soul finally changes the body at
death and transmigrates to another body; and since it is sure to have
another body in the next birth--either material or spiritual--there was
no cause for lamentation by Arjuna on account of death, neither for
Bhisma nor for Drona, for whom he was so much concerned. Rather, he
should rejoice for their changing bodies from old to new ones, thereby
rejuvenating their energy. Such changes of body account for varieties of
enjoyment or suffering, according to one's work in life. So Bhisma and
Drona, being noble souls, were surely going to have either spiritual
bodies in the next life, or at least life in heavenly bodies for
superior enjoyment of material existence. So, in either case, there was
no cause of lamentation.
Any
man who has perfect knowledge of the constitution of the individual
soul, the Supersoul, and nature--both material and spiritual--is called a
dhira or a most sober man. Such a man is never deluded by the
change of bodies. The Mayavadi theory of oneness of the spirit soul
cannot be entertained on the ground that the spirit soul cannot be cut
into pieces as a fragmental portion. Such cutting into different
individual souls would make the Supreme cleavable or changeable, against
the principle of the Supreme Soul being unchangeable.
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