Text 11] Deliverance of the Yamala-arjuna Trees
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( Chāndogya Upaniṣad  6.14.2): one has full knowledge about life when one is  ācāryavān , controlled by the  ācārya . But when one is  conducted  by  rajo-guṇa  and  tamo-guṇa , one does not care about anything; instead, one acts like an ordinary foolish animal, risking his life ( mṛtyu-saṁsāra-vartmani ) and therefore continuing to go through suffering after suffering. Na te  viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇum  ( Bhāg.  7.5.31). Such a foolish person does not know how to elevate himself in this body. Instead, he indulges in sinful activities and goes deeper and deeper into hellish life.
TEXT 11
देहः किमन्नदातुः स्वं निषेक्तुमर्तित्वे च ।  
 मातुः पितुर्वा बलिनः क्रेतुरग्रेः शुनोऽपि वा ॥११॥
dehaḥ kim anna-dātuḥ svaṁ 
    niṣektur mātur eva ca 
    mātuḥ pitur vā balinaḥ 
    kretur agneḥ śuno 'pi vā
dehaḥ —this body;  kim anna-dātuḥ —does it belong to the employer who gives me the money to maintain it;  svaṁ —or does it belong to me personally;  niṣektuḥ —(or does it belong) to the person who discharged the semen;  mātuḥ eva —(or does it belong) to the mother who maintained this body within her womb;  ca —and;  mātuḥ pituḥ vā —or (does it belong) to the father of the mother (because sometimes the father of the mother takes a grandson as an adopted son);  balinaḥ —(or does it belong) to the person who takes this body away by force;  kretuḥ —or to the person who purchases the body as a slave;  agneḥ —or to the fire (because ultimately the body is burned);  śunaḥ —or to the dogs and vultures that ultimately eat it;  api —even;  vā —or.
TRANSLATION
While alive, does this body belong to its employer, to the self, to the father, the mother, or the mother's father? Does it belong to the person who takes it away by force, to the slave master who purchases it, or to the sons who burn it in the fire? Or, if the body is not burned, does it belong to the dogs that eat it? Among the