108 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 2
is certainly comparable to an animal (yasydétma-buddhih kunape tri-
dhatuke .. . sa eva go-kharah). But even a common man can understand
that after death a person is gone. Although the body is still there, a dead
man’s relatives lament that the person has gone away, for acommon man
sees the body but cannot see the soul. As described in Bhagavad-gita,
dehino ’smin yatha dehe: the soul, the proprietor of the body, is within.
After death, when the breath within the nostrils has stopped, one can
understand that the person within the body, who was hearing and reply-
ing, has now gone. Therefore, in effect, the common man concludes that
actually the spirit soul was different from the body and has now gone
away. Thus even a common man, coming to his senses, can know that the
real person who was within the body and was hearing and replying was
never seen. For that which was never seen, what is the need of
lamentation?
TEXT 45
TMA AGTH FORSAT AEA: |
af af RAATATAT FAT: MAST VU
na Srota nanuvaktayam
mukhyo ‘py atra mahén asuh
yas tv thendriyavan dtma
sa cdnyah prana-dehayoh

na—not; srota—the listener; na—not; anuvakta—the speaker;
ayam—this; mukhyah—chief; api—although; atra—in this body;
mahén—the great; asuwh—life air; yah—he who; tu—but; iha—in this
body; indriya-van—possessing all the sense organs; atmaé—the soul;
sah—he; ca—and; anyah—different; prana-dehayoh—from the life
air and the material body.

TRANSLATION

In the body the most important substance is the life air, but that
also is neither the listener nor the speaker. Beyond even the life
air, the soul also can do nothing, for the Supersoul is actually the
director, in cooperation with the individual soul. The Supersoul
