460 Srimad Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch, 9
from boyhood to youth, from youth to old age and from old age to an-
other body created by his own action. The living entity creates his own
body by his personal desires, and the external cnergy of the Lord supplies
him the exact form by which he can enjoy his desires to the fullest extent.
The tiger wanted to enjoy the blood of another animal, and therefore, by
the grace of the Lord, the material energy supplies him the body of the
tiger with facilities for enjoying blood from another animal. Similarly,
a living entity desiring to get the body of a demigod in the higher
planet can also get it by the grace of the Lord. And if he is intelligent
enough, he can desire to get a spiritual body to enjoy the company of the
Lord, and he will get it. So the minute freedom of the living entity can be
fully utilized, and the Lord is so kind that he will award him the same
type of body that he desires. It is like dreaming of a golden mountain. A
person knows what a mountain is, and he knows also what gold is. Out
of his desire only he dreams of a golden mountain, and when the dream is
over he sees something else in his presence. He finds in his awakened state
that there is neither gold nor a mountain, and what to speak of a golden
mountain.

The different positions of the living entities in the material world under
multifarious manifestations of bodies are due to the misconception of
“mine” and “I.” The karmi thinks of this world as “mine,” and the jnani
thinks “Il am” everything. The whole material conception of politics,
sociology, philanthropy, altruism, etc., conceived by the conditioned souls
is on the basis of this misconceived “I” and ‘‘mine,” and this I and mine
are products of a strong desire to enjoy material life. Identification of the
body and the place where the body is obtained under different con-
ceptions of socialism, nationalism, family affection, and so on and so forth
is all due to forgetfulness of the real nature of the living entity, and the
whole misconception of the bewildered living entity can be removed by
the association of Sukadeva Gosvami and Mahiraja Pariksit, as all this is
explained in the Srimad-Bhagavatam.

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afé ara feta ea Tee aT: |
THA TAAMERATT AT AHATY | 3 II
yarhi vava mahimni sve
parasmin kala-mayayoh
