Text 12] The Sons of Sagara Meet Lord Kapiladeva 245

PURPORT

The material body is a combination of earth, water, fire, air and ether.
There is already fire within the body, and our practical experience is that
the heat of this fire sometimes increases and sometimes decreases. The
fire within the bodies of the sons of Sagara Maharaja became so much
hotter that all of them burned to ashes. The fire’s increased heat was due
to their misbehavior toward a great personality. Such misbehavior is
called mahad-vyatikrama. They were killed by the fire of their own
bodies because of insulting a great personality.

TEXT 12

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wi amt wa fred
ANAT VT YA 122i

na sddhu-vado muni-kopa-bharjita
nrpendra-putrd iti sattva-dhamani

kathamh tamo rosamayam vibhavyate
Jagat-pavitratmani khe rajo bhuvah

na—not; sddhu-vadah—the opinion of learned persons; muni-
kopa—by the anger of Kapila Muni; bharjitah—were burned to ashes;
nrpendra-putrah—all the sons of Sagara Maharaja; iti—thus; sattva-
dhémani—in Kapila Muni, in whom the mode of goodness was predomi-
nant; katham—how; tamah—the mode of ignorance; rosa-mayam—
manifested in the form of anger; vibhdvyate—can be manifested; jagat-
pavitra-dtmani—in He whose body can purify the whole world; khe—in
the sky; rajah—dust; bhuvah—earthly.

TRANSLATION

It is sometimes argued that the sons of King Sagara were burned
to ashes by the fire emanating from the eyes of Kapila Muni. This
statement, however, is not approved by great learned persons, for
Kapila Muni’s body is completely in the mode of goodness and
