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TEXT 9 srotram caksuh sparsanam ca
SYNONYMS  srotram--ears;
caksuh--eyes; sparsanam--touch; ca--also; rasanam--tongue;
ghranam--smelling power; eva--also; ca--and; adhisthaya--being
situated; manah--mind; ca--also; ayam--this; visayan--sense
objects; upasevate--enjoys.
TRANSLATION The living
entity, thus taking another gross body, obtains a certain type of ear,
tongue, and nose and sense of touch, which are grouped about the mind.
He thus enjoys a particular set of sense objects.
PURPORT In other words,
if the living entity adulterates his consciousness with the qualities of
cats and dogs, in his next life he gets a cat or dog body and enjoys. Consciousness
is originally pure, like water. But if we mix water with a certain color,
it changes. Similarly, consciousness is pure, for the spirit soul is pure.
But consciousness is changed according to the association of the material
qualities. Real consciousness is Krsna consciousness. When, therefore,
one is situated in Krsna consciousness, he is in his pure life. But if
his consciousness is adulterated by some type of material mentality, in
the next life he gets a corresponding body. He does not necessarily get
a human body again; he can get the body of a cat, dog, hog, demigod or
one of many other forms, for there are 8,400,000 species.
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