Text 30] Understanding Material Nature 1171
without doubting, and after quitting his material body he at once reaches
the destination for which he has prepared himself. After reaching that
abode, he never comes back to this material world.

The words lirigad vinirgame, which are used here, mean “after being
freed from the two kinds of material bodies, subtle and gross.”’ The subtle
body is made of mind, intelligence, false ego and contaminated conscious-
ness, and the gross body is made of five elements—earth, water, fire, air and
ether. When one is transferred to the spiritual world, he gives up both the
subtle and gross bodies of this material world. He enters the spiritual sky in
his pure spiritual body and is stationed in one of the spiritual planets.
Although the impersonalists also reach that spiritual sky after giving up
the subtle and gross material bodies, they are not placed in the spiritual
planets; as they desire, they are allowed to merge in the spiritual effulgence
emanating from the transcendental body of the Lord. The word sva-
samsthanam is also very significant. As a living entity prepares himself, so
he attains his abode. The impersonal Brahman effulgence is offered to the
impersonalists, but those who want to associate with the Supreme Person-
ality of Godhead in His transcendental form as Narayana in the Vaikunthas,
or with Krsna in Krsnaloka, go to those abodes, wherefrom they never
return.

TEXT 30
war a ammiafaag = Fat
wang faga frase |
TIT F uit: ag
meateant TI A TAA loll
yada na yogopacitasu ceto
mayasu siddhasya visajjate ‘iga
ananya-hetusv atha me gatih syad
atyantiki yatra na mrtyu-hasah

yada—when; na—not; yoga-upacitasu—to powers developed by yoga;
cetah—the attention; ma@yaésu—manifestations of maya; siddhasya—of a
perfect yogt; visajjate—is attracted; aiga—My dear mother; ananya-hetusu—
having no other cause; atha—then; me—to Me; gatih-his progress; syat—
becomes; atyantiki— unlimited; yatra— where; na—not; mrtyu-hasah—power
of death.
