822 Srimad-Bhagavatain [Canto 1, Ch. 15
TRANSLATION

Then he amalgamated all the sense organs into the mind, then the mind
into life, life into breathing, his total existence into the embodiments of
the five elements and his body into death. Then as pure self, he became
free from the material conception of life.

PURPORT

Maharaja Yudhisthira, like his brother Arjuna, began to concentrate and
gradually became freed from all material bondage. First of all he concen-
trated all the actions of the senses amalgamated in the mind, or in other
words he turned his mind towards transcendental service of the Lord. He
prayed that all material activities were performed by the mind, actions
and reactions of the material senses, and since he was going back to God-
head, the mind would wind up its material activities and be turned towards
the transcendental service of the Lord. There was no longer need for mate-
rial activities. Actually the activities of the mind cannot be stopped be-
cause they are the reflection of the eternal soul, but the quality of the
activities can be changed from matter to the transcendental service of the
Lord. The material color of the mind is changed by washing it from con-
taminations of life-breathing and thereby getting it freed from the con-
tamination of repeated births and deaths and getting it situated in pure
spiritual life. All is manifested by the temporary embodiment of the mate-
rial body, which is a production of mind at the time of death, and if the
mind is purified by practice of transcendental loving service of the Lord,
and the same is constantly engaged in the service of the lotus feet of the
Lord, there is no more chance of the mind’s producing another material
body after death. It will be freed from the absorption of material contami-
nation. The pure soul will be able to return back home, back to Godhead.

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tritve hutva ca paiicatvam
tac caikatve jjuhon munih
sarvam atmany ajuhavid
brahmany atmanam avyaye
