70 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 10, Ch. 1
mind may be flickering. Although the mind may work imperfectly at the
time of death, Krsna gives a devotee shelter at His lotus feet. Therefore
when a devotee gives up his body, the mind does not take him to another
material body (tyaktva dehar punar janma naiti mam eti); rather,
Krsna takes the devotee to that place where He is engaged in His
pastimes (mam eti), as we have already discussed in previous verses.
One’s consciousness, therefore, must always be absorbed in Krsna, and
then one’s life will be successful. Otherwise the mind will carry the soul
to another material body. The soul will be placed in the semen of a father
and discharged into the womb of a mother. The semen and ovum create a
particular type of body according to the form of the father and mother,
and when the body is mature, the soul emerges in that body and begins a
new life. This is the process of transmigration of the soul from one body
to another (tatha dehdntara-praptih). Unfortunately, those who are less
intelligent think that when the body disappears, everything is finished.
The entire world is being misled by such fools and rascals. But as stated
in Bhagavad-gita (2.20), na hanyate hanyamane Sarire. The soul does
not die when the body is destroyed. Rather, the soul takes on another
body.
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ma aa ware Zastite
Tal ERAT AG |
a
DU MC
WIA: AE AA ATA MVR
yato yato dhavati daiva-coditarh
mano vikdratmakam dpa pajicasu
gunesu mdyd-racitesu dehy asau
prapadyamanah saha tena jayate

yatah yatah—from one place to another or from one position to
another; dhdvati—speculates; daiva-coditam—impelled by accident or
deliberation; manah—the mind; vikdra-atmakam—changing from one
type of thinking, feeling and willing to another; dpa—at the end, he ob-
tains (a mentality); paricasu—at the time of death (when the material
