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TEXT 21 prthaktvena tu yaj jnanam
SYNONYMS  prthaktvena--because
of division; tu--but; yat jnanam--which knowledge; nana-bhavan--multifarious
situations; prthak-vidhan--differently; vetti--one who knows;
sarvesu--in all; bhutesu--living entities; tat jnanam--that
knowledge; viddhi--must be known; rajasam--in terms of passion.
TRANSLATION That knowledge
by which a different type of living entity is seen to be dwelling in different
bodies is knowledge in the mode of passion.
PURPORT The concept
that the material body is the living entity and that with the destruction
of the body the consciousness is also destroyed is called knowledge in
the mode of passion. According to that knowledge, bodies differ from one
another because of the development of different types of consciousness,
otherwise there is no separate soul which manifests consciousness. The
body is itself the soul, and there is no separate soul beyond this body.
According to such knowledge, consciousness is temporary. Or else there
are no individual souls, but there is an all-pervading soul, which is full
of knowledge, and this body is a manifestation of temporary ignorance.
Or beyond this body there is no special individual or supreme soul. All
such conceptions are considered products of the mode of passion.
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