Text 22] Maharaja Rahigana Meets Jada Bharata 365
TEXT 22
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TAA | FOTATATI NT UR
sthdly-agni-tapat payaso ’bhitapas
tat-tdpatas tandula-garbha-randhih
dehendriydsvasaya-sannikarsat
tat-sarasrtih purusasyanurodhat
sthali—on the cooking pot; agni-tapat—because of the heat of fire;
payasah—the milk put into the pot; abhitapah—becomes hot; tat-
tapatah—because of the milk’s becoming hot; tandula-garbha-
randhih—the center of the rice within the milk becomes cooked; deha-
indriya-asvasaya—the bodily senses; sannikarsét—from having
connections with; tat-sarsrtih—the experience of fatigue and other mis-
eries; purusasya—of the soul; anurodhat—from compliance due to
being grossly attached to the body, senses and mind.
TRANSLATION
King Rahigana continued: My dear sir, you have said that desig-
nations like bodily fatness and thinness are not characteristics of
the soul. That is incorrect because designations like pain and
pleasure are certainly felt by the soul. You may put a pot of milk
and rice within fire, and the milk and rice are automatically heated
one after the other. Similarly, due to bodily pains and pleasures,
the senses, mind and soul are affected. The soul cannot be com-
pletely detached from this conditioning.
PURPORT
This argument put forward by Maharaja Rahigana is correct from the
practical point of view, but it arises from an attachment to the bodily
conception. It can be said that a person sitting in his car is certainly
