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Chapter 15
Link:- In the preceding three verses, there is description of the soul (embodied or individual soul). While concluding the topic the Lord, in the next verse, describes who knows this soul, and who does not?
utkramantam sthitam vapi bhuiijanam va gunanvitam
vimudha nanupasyanti pasyanti jnanacaksusah
The duped do not know the soul having identified itself with three guns departing from, or dwelling in the body, or enjoying the objects of senses, but they, who possess the eye of wisdom, behold It. 10
Comment:-
Utkramantam:- The soul (self), while giving up a physical body, departs taking the subtle body and the causal body with It. So long as, the heart beats, the soul dwells, in that body. Even when the heart stops beating, the soul may stay for sometime. In fact, the soul being immovable and sentient, does not migrate, it is the life-breath, which migrates. But, It is said to migrate, because of its attachment, for the subtle body and the causal body.
The term "Utkramati", used for the Jivatma, (embodied soul) which assumes itself, as the lord, as mentioned in the eighth verse, has been called here 'Utkrbmantam' (depart).
Sthitam va:- As a camera takes a picture of an object as it is reflected, so is the subtle body formed, according to the thought which a person has at the time of death. As the process of making photograph takes sometime, so the physical body to be prepared according to the thought of the last moment takes sometime.
The term, which has been described as Yadavapnoti, in the eighth verse has been called 'Sthitam', here.
Api bhunjanam va:- When a man enjoys objects of senses, of sound, touch, form, taste and smell, he thinks that he is very careful, he knows the objects of senses well, and enjoys them, carefully. But in fact, he is deluded, as their enjoyment leads him to hell and evil wombs.
Philosophers and. scriptures have different opinions about God, the soul and the world. But all of them agree, that the soul, suffers because of Its attachment to the world and attains bliss, by having affinity for God.
The deluded hear, study and also declare, that the world is transient and kaleidoscopic, yet they assume it as permanent, because they cannot enjoy the objects of senses without regarding these as real or permanent. A voluptuary, becomes so much deluded that he regards gratification of lust, as his highest aim (Gita 16/11). So his eyes of wisdom ever remain shut. People know, that they have to die, because they are living in a worid of mortals, yet they want to live, in order to enjoy sense-objects.
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