Text 24] Instructions for Civilized Human Beings 221

As the soul transmigrates, one who has taken birth must give up the
present body, and then he must certainly accept another body. This
should be no cause for lamentation. Therefore Lord Krsna says, dhiras
tatra na muhyati: one who is dhira, or sober, who is learned in philoso-
phy and established in knowledge, cannot be unhappy over the
transmigration of the soul.

TEXT 24

amt qa gad 24 seg aarti |
arene aatig fagt aafrtaar eel

krpaya bhitajam duhkham
daivam jahyat samadhina

atmajam yoga-viryena
nidram sattva-nisevaya

krpaya—by being merciful to all other living entities; bhita-jam—
because of other living entities; duhkham—suffering; daivam—suffer-
ings imposed by providence; jahydt—one should give up; samadhina —
by trance or meditation; atma-jam—sufferings due to the body and
mind; yoga-viryena—by practicing hatha-yoga, pranayama and so
forth; nidram—sleeping; sattva-nisevaya—by developing brahminical
qualifications or the mode of goodness.

TRANSLATION

By good behavior and freedom from envy one should counteract
sufferings due to other living entities, by meditation in trance one
should counteract sufferings due to providence, and by practicing
hatha-yoga, pranayama and so forth one should counteract suffer-
ings due to the body and mind. Similarly, by developing the mode
of goodness, especially in regard to eating, one should conquer
sleep.

PURPORT

By practice, one should avoid eating in such a way that other living en-
tities will be disturbed and suffer. Since I suffer when pinched or killed
