80 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 12

constituents of the body are caused by various elements, and they
should be merged again into those elements.

PURPORT

To be self-realized, one must understand the original sources of the
various elements of the body. The body is a combination of skin, bone,
muscle, blood, semen, urine, stool, heat, breath and so on, which all come
from earth, water, fire, air and sky. One must be well conversant with
the sources of all the bodily constituents. Then one becomes a self-
realized person, or Gtmavan, one who knows the self.

TEXTS 26-28

TAM AIAN fet aualt |
Tart Tea tafe TeNTEL HATTA 112411
men Ted fret a aera FAST |
fog attt aarta CATETA AAT RII
ST TIT Tay SUA IAAT IA |
AS TITAN Frat HATO A HAT NCI

vacam agnau savaktavyam
indre silpam karav api

padani gatyda vayasi
ratyopastham prajapatau

mrtyau payum visargam ca
yathd-sthanam vinirdiset

diksu Srotram sa-nadena
sparsenaddhydatmani tvacam

riipani caksusd rajan
Jyotisy abhinivesayet
apsu pracetasa jihvarn
ghreyair ghranam ksitau nyaset

vdcam—speech; agnau—in the fire-god (the personified god control-
ling fire); sa-vaktavyam—with the subject matter of speaking; indre—
