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
TM aIMeNtre fret waft |
Fa TAT TARE TeTTEL HOTTA REI
Fen Ted frat a aera AST |
fog attt aarta CATETA AAT RII
ST TIT Tay SUA IAAT IA |
TS TIAA frat TA alot eat AV RII
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—
