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possessing a particular type of body; na—not; tatha—so; aviddha-
kantakah—a person who has not been pinpricked.
TRANSLATION
By seeing their faces, one whose body has been pricked by pins
can understand the pain of others who are pinpricked. Realizing
that this pain is the same for everyone, he does not want others to
suffer in this way. But one who has never been pricked by pins
cannot understand this pain.
PURPORT
There is a saying, “The happiness of wealth is enjoyable by a person
who has tasted the distress of poverty.” There is also another common
saying, vandhyd ki bujhibe prasava-vedand: “A woman who has not
given birth to a child cannot understand the pain of childbirth.” Unless
one comes to the platform of actual experience, one cannot realize what is
pain and what is happiness in this material world. The laws of nature act
accordingly. If one has killed an animal, one must himself be killed by
that same animal. This is called mamsa. Mam means “me,” and sa
means “he.” As I am eating an animal, that animal will have the oppor-
tunity to eat me. In every state, therefore, it is ordinarily the custom that
if a person commits murder he is hanged.
TEXT 15
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daridro niraharn-stambho
muktah sarva-madair iha
krechram yadrcchaydpnoti
tad dhi tasya param tapah
daridrah—a poverty-stricken person; nir-aham-stambhah—is auto-
matically freed from all false prestige; muktah—liberated; sarva—all;
