714 Srimad-Bhagavatam [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 proposi-
tions 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 funda-
mental 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

AMIR IBTAMTAHAAIAT: |
BY TAM: HIT Fated F at FTA edi

tasmaj jahy anga vaiklavyam
ajnana-krtam atmanah

katham tvanathah krpana
varterams te ca mam vind

tasmat—therefore; jahi—give up; anga—O King; vaiklaivyam— disparity of
the mind; ajiadna—ignorance; krtam—due to; atmanah—of yourself; katham
—how; tu—but; anathah—helpless; krpanah—poor creatures; varteran—be
able to survive; te—they; ca—also; mam—me; vina—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.
