Text 41] The Advent of Lord Krsna: Introduction 67

TEXT 41

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CEYIRA «AAT PATTY
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svapne yatha pasyati deham idrsam
manorathenabhinivista-cetanah

drsta-srutabhyam manasdnucintayan
prapadyate tat kim api hy apasmrtih

svapne—in a dream; yathd—as; pasyati—one sees; deham—the kind
of body; idrsam—similarly; manorathena—by mental speculation;
abhinivista—is fully absorbed; cetanah—he whose consciousness;
drsta—by whatever has been experienced by seeing with the eyes;
Srutabhyam—and by hearing a description of something else; manasd—
by the mind; anucintayan—thinking, feeling and willing; prapad-
yate—surrenders; tat—to that situation; kim api—what to speak of;
hi—indeed; apasmrtih—experiencing forgetfulness of the present body.

TRANSLATION

Having experienced a situation by seeing or hearing about it,
one contemplates and speculates about that situation, and thus one
surrenders to it, not considering his present body. Similarly, by
mental adjustments one dreams at night of living under different
circumstances, in different bodies, and forgets his actual position.
Under this same process, one gives up his present body and accepts
another [tatha dehantara-praptih].

PURPORT

Transmigration of the soul is very clearly explained in this verse. One
sometimes forgets his present body and thinks of his childhood body, a
body of the past, and of how one was playing, jumping, talking and so on.
When the material body is no long workable, it becomes dust: “‘For dust
