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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 13]
PURPORT
The actual fact is that every living being is an individual part and parcel of the Supreme Being, and his constitutional position is subordinate cooperative service. Either in his conditional material existence or in his liberated position of full knowledge and eternity, the living entity is eternally under the control of the Supreme Lord. But those who are not conversant with factual knowledge put forward many speculative propositions about the real position of the living entity. It is admitted, however, by all schools of philosophy, that the living being is eternal and that the covering body of five material elements is perishable and temporary. The eternal living entity transmigrates from one material body to another by the law of  karma , and material bodies are perishable by their fundamental structures. Therefore there is nothing to be lamented in the case of the soul's being transferred into another body, or the material body perishing at a certain stage. There are others also who believe in the merging of the spirit soul in the Supreme Spirit when it is uncovered by the material encagement, and there are others also who do not believe in the existence of spirit or soul, but believe in tangible matter. In our daily experience we find so many transformations of matter from one form to another, but we do not lament such changing features. In either of the above cases, the force of divine energy is uncheckable; no one has any hand in it, and thus there is no cause of grief.
TEXT 45
तस्माज्यज्ञ वैक्ल्यमज्ञानकृतमात्मनः ।  
 कथं त्वनाथाः कृपणा वर्तेरस्ते च मां विना ॥४५॥
tasmāj jahy aṅga vaiklavyam  
 ajñāna-kṛtam ātmanaḥ  
 katham tvanāthāḥ kṛpaṇā  
 varteraṁs te ca mām vinā
tasmāt —therefore;  jahi —give up;  aṅga —O King;  vaiklavyam —disparity of the mind;  ajñāna —ignorance;  kṛtam —due to;  ātmanaḥ —of yourself;  katham —how;  tu —but;  anāthāḥ —helpless;  kṛpaṇāḥ —poor creatures;  varteran —be able to survive;  te —they;  ca —also;  mām —me;  vinā —without.
TRANSLATION
Therefore give up your anxiety due to ignorance of the self. You are now thinking of how they, who are helpless, poor creatures, will exist without you.