Text 12] The Sons of Sagara Meet Lord Kapiladeva
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PURPORT
The material body is a combination of earth, water, fire, air and ether. There is already fire within the body, and our practical experience is that the heat of this fire sometimes increases and sometimes decreases. The fire within the bodies of the sons of Sagara Mahārāja became so much hotter that all of them burned to ashes. The fire's increased heat was due to their misbehavior toward a great personality. Such misbehavior is called  mahad-vyatikrama . They were killed by the fire of their own bodies because of insulting a great personality.
TEXT 12
न साधुवादो मुनिकोपभजिता 
    नृपेन्द्रपुत्रा इति सत्त्वधामनि । 
    कथं तमो रोषमयं विभाव्यते 
    जगत्यवित्रात्मनि खे रजो भुवः ॥१२॥
na sādhu-vādo muni-kopa-bharjitā 
    nṛpendra-putrā iti sattva-dhāmani 
    katham tamo roṣamayam vibhāvyate 
    jagat-pavitrātmani khe rajo bhuvaḥ
na —not;  sādhu-vādaḥ —the opinion of learned persons;  muni-kopa —by the anger of Kapila Muni;  bharjitāḥ —were burned to ashes;  nṛpendra-putrāḥ —all the sons of Sagara Mahārāja;  iti —thus;  sattva-dhāmani —in Kapila Muni, in whom the mode of goodness was predominant;  katham —how;  tamaḥ —the mode of ignorance;  roṣa-mayam —manifested in the form of anger;  vibhāvyate —can be manifested;  jagat-pavitra-ātmani —in He whose body can purify the whole world;  khe —in the sky;  rajaḥ —dust;  bhuvaḥ —earthly.
TRANSLATION
It is sometimes argued that the sons of King Sagara were burned to ashes by the fire emanating from the eyes of Kapila Muni. This statement, however, is not approved by great learned persons, for Kapila Muni's body is completely in the mode of goodness and