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TEXT 8 sariram yad avapnoti
SYNONYMS  sariram--body;
yat--as much as; avapnoti--gets; yat--that which;
ca--also; api--virtually; utkramati--gives up; isvarah--the
lord of the body; grhitva--taking; etani--all these; samyati--goes
away; vayuh--air; gandhan--smell; iva--like; asayat--from
the flower.
TRANSLATION The living
entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life
from one body to another as the air carries aromas.
PURPORT Here the living
entity is described as isvara, the controller of his own body. If
he likes, he can change his body to a higher grade, and if he likes he
can move to a lower class. Minute independence is there. The change his
body undergoes depends upon him. At the time of death, the consciousness
he has created will carry him on to the next type of body. If he has made
his consciousness like that of a cat or dog, he is sure to change to a
cat's or dog's body. And, if he has fixed his consciousness on godly consciousness,
he will be transferred to Krsnaloka in the spiritual world and will associate
with Krsna. It is a false claim that after the annihilation of this body
everything is finished. The individual soul is transmigrating from one
body to another, and his present body and present activities are the background
of his next body. One gets a different body according to karma,
and he has to quit this body in due course. It is stated here that the
subtle body, which carries the conception of the next body, develops another
body in the next life. This process of transmigrating from one body to
another and struggling while in the body is called karsati or struggle
for existence.
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