1218 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 28

TRANSLATION

Because he has achieved his real identity, the perfectly realized soul
has no conception of how the material body is moving or acting, just as an
intoxicated person cannot understand whether or not he has clothing on
his body.

PURPORT

This stage of life is explained by Ripa Gosvami in his Bhakti-rasamrta-
sindhu. A person whose mind is completely dovetailed with the desire of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and who engages one hundred
percent in the service of the Lord, forgets his material bodily demands.

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deho ’pi daiva-vasagah khalu karma yavat
sudrambhakam pratisamiksata eva sasuh

tam saprapaficam adhiritdha-samadhi-y ogah
svapnam punar na bhajate pratibuddha-vastuh

dehah—the body; api—moreover; daiva-vasa-gah—under the control of
the Personality of Godhead; khalu—indeed; karma—activities; yavat—as
much as; sva-drambhakam—begun by himself; pratisamiksate—continues to
function; eva—certainly; sa-asuh—along with the senses; tam—the body;
sa-prapaiicam—with its expansions; adhiriidha-samadhi-yogah—being situ-
ated in samadhi by yoga practice; svapnam—born in a dream; punah—
again; na—not; bhajate—he does accept as his own; pratibuddha—awake;
vastuh—to his constitutional position.

TRANSLATION

The body of such a liberated yogi, along with the senses, is taken charge
of by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and it functions until its
destined activities are finished. Because the liberated devotee, being awake
to his constitutional position and thus situated in samadhi, the highest
perfectional stage of yoga, does not accept the by-products of the material
