Text 5] Jada Bharata Instructs King Rahagana 381
bhitydya kalpate. One must come to the transcendental platform; other-
wise life's mission is never fulfilled.
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sa vasanatma visayoparakto
guna-pravaho vikrtah sodasatma
bibhrat prthan-namabhi ripa-bhedam
antar-bahistvam ca purais tanoti
sah—that; vdsand—endowed with many desires: Gtma—the mind:
visaya-uparaktah—attached to material happiness. sense gratification:
guna-pravahah—driven by the force of either sattva-guna, rajo-guna or
tamo-guna; vikrtah—transformed by lust and so on: sodasa-atma—the
chief of the sixteen material elements (the five gross elements. the ten
senses and the mind): bibhrat—wandering: prthak-namabhih—with
separate names: riipa-bhedam—assuming different forms: antah-
bahistvam—the quality of being first-class or last-class: ca—and:
puraih—with different bodily forms: tanoti— manifests.
TRANSLATION
Because the mind is absorbed in desires for pious and impious
activities, it is naturally subjected to the transformations of lust
and anger. In this way, it becomes attracted to material sense en-
joyment. In other words, the mind is conducted by the modes of
goodness, passion and ignorance. There are eleven senses and five
material elements, and out of these sixteen items, the mind is the
chief. Therefore the mind brings about birth in different types of
bodies among demigods, human beings, animals and birds. When
the mind is situated in a higher or lower position, it accepts a
higher or lower material body.
