Chapter 13. Nature,
the Enjoyer, and Consciousness
TEXT 31
yada bhuta-prthag-bhavam
eka-stham anupasyati
tata eva ca vistaram
brahma sampadyate tada
SYNONYMS
yada--when;
bhuta--living entities; prthak-bhavam--separated identities;
eka-stham--situated in one; anupasyati--tries to see through
authority; tatah eva--thereafter; ca--also; vistaram--expanded;
brahma--the Absolute; sampadyate--attains; tada--at
that time.
TRANSLATION
When a sensible
man ceases to see different identities, which are due to different material
bodies, he attains to the Brahman conception. Thus he sees that beings
are expanded everywhere.
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 beautified 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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