126 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 2
annihilation. Rather, one should be very seriously concerned about the
soul within the body and how to release the soul from the material
clutches. The living entity within the body is never annihilated;
therefore one should surely know that whether one has many friends or
many enemies, his friends cannot help him, and his enemies cannot do
him any harm. One should know that he is a spirit soul (aham
brahmasmi) and that the constitutional position of the soul is unaffected
by the changes of the body. In all circumstances, everyone, as a spirit
soul, must be a devotee of Lord Visnu and should not be concerned with
bodily relationships, whether with friends or with enemies. One should
know that neither we ourselves nor our enemies in the bodily conception
of life are ever killed.
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Sri-nadrada uvaca
itt daitya-pater vakyarn
ditir dkarnya sasnusd
putra-sokam ksanat tyaktva
tattve cittam adhdrayat
sri-naradah uvica—Sri Narada Muni said; iti—thus; daitya-pateh—

of the King of the demons; vakyam—the speech; ditih—Diti, the mother
of Hiranyakasipu and Hiranyaksa; @karnya—hearing; sa-snusd—with
the wife of Hiranyaksa; putra-sokam—the great bereavement for her
son, Hiranyaksa; ksanat—immediately; tyaktva—giving up; tattve—in
the real philosophy of life; cittam—heart; adhdrayat—engaged.

TRANSLATION

Sri Narada Muni continued: Diti, the mother of Hiranyakasipu

and Hiranyaksa, heard the instructions of Hiranyakasipu along
with her daughter-in-law, Rusabhanu, Hiranyaksa’s wife. She then
forgot her grief over her son’s death and thus engaged her mind
and attention in understanding the real philosophy of life.
