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TEXT 10 utkramantam sthitam vapi
SYNONYMS  utkramantam--quitting
the body; sthitam--situated in the body; va api--either;
bhunjanam--enjoying; va--or; guna-anvitam--under the
spell of the modes of material nature; vimudhah--foolish persons;
na--never; anupasyanti--can see; pasyanti--one can
see; jnana-caksusah--one who has the eyes of knowledge.
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-caksusah
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 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 of 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 Krsna 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 Krsna conscious and liberate themselves
to transfer to the spiritual world.
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