30 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 1
himsa tad-abhimanena
danda-parusyayor yatha
vaisamyam iha bhitdnam
maméham iti parthiva
hirnsd—suffering; tat—of this; abhimanena—by the false concep-
tion; danda-pdrusyayoh—when there is punishment and chastisement;
yathad—just as; vaisamyam—misconception; iha—here (in this body);
bhiitanam—of the living entities; mama-aham—mine and I; iti—thus;
parthiva—O lord of the earth.
TRANSLATION
My dear King, the conditioned soul, being in the bodily concep-
tion of life, considers his body to be his self and considers every-
thing in relationship with the body to be his. Because he has this
wrong conception of life, he is subjected to dualities like praise
and chastisement.
PURPORT
Only when a conditioned soul accepts the body as himself does he feel
the effects of chastisement or praise. Then he determines one person to
be his enemy and another his friend and wants to chastise the enemy and
welcome the friend. This creation of friends and enemies is a result of
one’s bodily conception of life.
TEXT 25
afaratshrnatsd aaarentrat TY: |
FM ATA RTT AATASHATTAA: |
Re Tee fe FATA BATU
yan-nibaddho ’bhimano ’yam
tad-vadhat praninam vadhah
tatha na yasya kaivalyad
abhimano *khilatmanah
parasya dama-kartur hi
himnsa kenasya kalpyate
