Go to Vaniquotes | Go to Vanipedia | Go to Vanimedia


Vanisource - the complete essence of Vedic knowledge


SB 7.7.21: Difference between revisions

m (1 revision(s))
 
(Vanibot #0054 edit - transform synonyms into clickable links, which search similar occurrences)
 
(One intermediate revision by one other user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{SB_Header|{{PAGENAME}}}}
{{info
{{info
|speaker=King Prahlada
|speaker=Prahlāda Mahārāja
|listener=King Prahlada's school friends
|listener=Prahlāda Mahārāja's school friends
}}
}}
[[Category:Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 07 Chapter 07]]
[[Category:Bhagavatam Verses Spoken by Prahlada Maharaja - Vanisource|070721]]
<div style="float:left">'''[[Srimad-Bhagavatam]] - [[SB 7|Seventh Canto]] - [[SB 7.7: What Prahlada Learned in the Womb|Chapter 7: What Prahlāda Learned in the Womb]]'''</div>
<div style="float:right">[[File:Go-previous.png|link=SB 7.7.19-20]] '''[[SB 7.7.19-20]] - [[SB 7.7.22]]''' [[File:Go-next.png|link=SB 7.7.22]]</div>
{{RandomImage}}


==== TEXT 21 ====
==== TEXT 21 ====


<div id="text">
<div class="verse">
svarṇaṁ yathā grāvasu hema-kāraḥ<br>
:svarṇaṁ yathā grāvasu hema-kāraḥ
kṣetreṣu yogais tad-abhijña āpnuyāt<br>
:kṣetreṣu yogais tad-abhijña āpnuyāt
kṣetreṣu deheṣu tathātma-yogair<br>
:kṣetreṣu deheṣu tathātma-yogair
adhyātma-vid brahma-gatiṁ labheta<br>
:adhyātma-vid brahma-gatiṁ labheta
</div>
</div>


Line 17: Line 22:
==== SYNONYMS ====
==== SYNONYMS ====


<div id="synonyms">
<div class="synonyms">
svarṇam—gold; yathā—just as; grāvasu—in the stones of gold ore; hema-kāraḥ—the expert who knows about gold; kṣetreṣu—in the gold mines; yogaiḥ—by various processes; tat-abhijñaḥ—an expert who can understand where gold is; āpnuyāt—very easily obtains; kṣetreṣu—within the material fields; deheṣu—the human bodies and all the rest of the 8,400,000 different bodily forms; tathā—similarly; ātma-yogaiḥ—by spiritual processes; adhyātma-vit—one who is expert in understanding the distinction between spirit and matter; brahma-gatim—perfection in spiritual life; labheta—may obtain.
''[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=svarṇam&tab=syno_o&ds=1 svarṇam]'' — gold; ''[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=yathā&tab=syno_o&ds=1 yathā]'' — just as; ''[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=grāvasu&tab=syno_o&ds=1 grāvasu]'' — in the stones of gold ore; ''[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=hema&tab=syno_o&ds=1 hema]-[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=kāraḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1 kāraḥ]'' — the expert who knows about gold; ''[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=kṣetreṣu&tab=syno_o&ds=1 kṣetreṣu]'' — in the gold mines; ''[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=yogaiḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1 yogaiḥ]'' — by various processes; ''[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=tat&tab=syno_o&ds=1 tat]-[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=abhijñaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1 abhijñaḥ]'' — an expert who can understand where gold is; ''[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=āpnuyāt&tab=syno_o&ds=1 āpnuyāt]'' — very easily obtains; ''[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=kṣetreṣu&tab=syno_o&ds=1 kṣetreṣu]'' — within the material fields; ''[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=deheṣu&tab=syno_o&ds=1 deheṣu]'' — the human bodies and all the rest of the 8,400,000 different bodily forms; ''[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=tathā&tab=syno_o&ds=1 tathā]'' — similarly; ''[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=ātma&tab=syno_o&ds=1 ātma]-[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=yogaiḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1 yogaiḥ]'' — by spiritual processes; ''[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=adhyātma&tab=syno_o&ds=1 adhyātma]-[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=vit&tab=syno_o&ds=1 vit]'' — one who is expert in understanding the distinction between spirit and matter; ''[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=brahma&tab=syno_o&ds=1 brahma]-[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=gatim&tab=syno_o&ds=1 gatim]'' — perfection in spiritual life; ''[//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=labheta&tab=syno_o&ds=1 labheta]'' — may obtain.
</div>
</div>


Line 24: Line 29:
==== TRANSLATION ====
==== TRANSLATION ====


<div id="translation">
<div class="translation">
An expert geologist can understand where there is gold and by various processes can extract it from the gold ore. Similarly, a spiritually advanced person can understand how the spiritual particle exists within the body, and thus by cultivating spiritual knowledge he can attain perfection in spiritual life. However, as one who is not expert cannot understand where there is gold, a foolish person who has not cultivated spiritual knowledge cannot understand how the spirit exists within the body.
An expert geologist can understand where there is gold and by various processes can extract it from the gold ore. Similarly, a spiritually advanced person can understand how the spiritual particle exists within the body, and thus by cultivating spiritual knowledge he can attain perfection in spiritual life. However, as one who is not expert cannot understand where there is gold, a foolish person who has not cultivated spiritual knowledge cannot understand how the spirit exists within the body.
</div>
</div>
Line 31: Line 36:
==== PURPORT ====
==== PURPORT ====


<div id="purport">
<div class="purport">
Here is a very good example concerning spiritual understanding. Foolish rascals, including so-called jñānīs, philosophers and scientists, cannot understand the existence of the soul within the body because they are lacking in spiritual knowledge. The Vedas enjoin, tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet: [MU 1.2.12] to understand spiritual knowledge, one must approach a bona fide spiritual master. Unless one has been trained in geology, one cannot detect gold in stone. Similarly, unless one has been trained by a spiritual master, he cannot understand what is spirit and what is matter. Here it is said, yogais tad-abhijñaḥ. This indicates that one who has connected himself with spiritual knowledge can understand that there is a spiritual soul within the body. However, one who is in an animalistic conception of life and has no spiritual culture cannot understand. As an expert mineralogist or geologist can understand where there is gold and can then invest his money to dig there and chemically separate the gold from the ore, an expert spiritualist can understand where the soul is within matter. One who has not been trained cannot distinguish between gold and stone. Similarly, fools and rascals who have not learned from an expert spiritual master what is soul and what is matter cannot understand the existence of the soul within the body. To understand such knowledge, one must be trained in the mystic yoga system, or, finally, in the bhakti-yoga system. As stated in Bhagavad-gītā ([[BG 18.55]]), bhaktyā mām abhijānāti. Unless one takes shelter of the bhakti-yoga process, one cannot understand the existence of the soul within the body. Therefore Bhagavad-gītā begins by teaching:
Here is a very good example concerning spiritual understanding. Foolish rascals, including so-called ''jñānīs'', philosophers and scientists, cannot understand the existence of the soul within the body because they are lacking in spiritual knowledge. The ''Vedas'' enjoin, ''tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet:'' (MU 1.2.12) to understand spiritual knowledge, one must approach a bona fide spiritual master. Unless one has been trained in geology, one cannot detect gold in stone. Similarly, unless one has been trained by a spiritual master, he cannot understand what is spirit and what is matter. Here it is said, ''yogais tad-abhijñaḥ''. This indicates that one who has connected himself with spiritual knowledge can understand that there is a spiritual soul within the body. However, one who is in an animalistic conception of life and has no spiritual culture cannot understand. As an expert mineralogist or geologist can understand where there is gold and can then invest his money to dig there and chemically separate the gold from the ore, an expert spiritualist can understand where the soul is within matter. One who has not been trained cannot distinguish between gold and stone. Similarly, fools and rascals who have not learned from an expert spiritual master what is soul and what is matter cannot understand the existence of the soul within the body. To understand such knowledge, one must be trained in the mystic ''yoga'' system, or, finally, in the ''bhakti-yoga'' system. As stated in ''Bhagavad-gītā'' ([[BG 18.55 (1972)|BG 18.55]]), ''bhaktyā mām abhijānāti''. Unless one takes shelter of the ''bhakti-yoga'' process, one cannot understand the existence of the soul within the body. Therefore ''Bhagavad-gītā'' begins by teaching:


:dehino 'smin yathā dehe
:''dehino 'smin yathā dehe''
:kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā
:''kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā''
:tathā dehāntara-prāptir
:''tathā dehāntara-prāptir''
:dhīras tatra na muhyati
:''dhīras tatra na muhyati''


"As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change." ([[BG 2.13]]) Thus the first instruction is that one should understand that the soul is within the body and is transmigrating from one body to another. This is the beginning of spiritual knowledge. Any person who is not expert in understanding this science or is unwilling to understand it remains in the bodily conception of life, or the animalistic conception of life, as confirmed in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam ([[SB yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke. .. sa eva go-kharaḥ ([[SB 10.84.13]]]])). Every member of human society should clearly understand the instructions of Bhagavad-gītā, for only in this way can one be spiritually elevated and automatically give up the false, illusory knowledge by which one thinks, "I am this body, and everything belonging to this body is mine [ahaṁ mameti SB 5.5.8]." This doggish conception should be rejected immediately. One should be prepared to understand the spirit soul and the supreme spirit, God, who are eternally related. Thus one may return home, back to Godhead, having solved all the problems of life.
"As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change." ([[BG 2.13 (1972)|BG 2.13]]) Thus the first instruction is that one should understand that the soul is within the body and is transmigrating from one body to another. This is the beginning of spiritual knowledge. Any person who is not expert in understanding this science or is unwilling to understand it remains in the bodily conception of life, or the animalistic conception of life, as confirmed in ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'' (''yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke. .. sa eva go-kharaḥ'' ([[SB 10.84.13|10.84.13]])). Every member of human society should clearly understand the instructions of ''Bhagavad-gītā'', for only in this way can one be spiritually elevated and automatically give up the false, illusory knowledge by which one thinks, "I am this body, and everything belonging to this body is mine (''ahaṁ mameti'' [[SB 5.5.8]])." This doggish conception should be rejected immediately. One should be prepared to understand the spirit soul and the supreme spirit, God, who are eternally related. Thus one may return home, back to Godhead, having solved all the problems of life.
</div>
</div>
__NOTOC__{{SB_Footer|{{PAGENAME}}}}
 
 
<div style="float:right; clear:both;">[[File:Go-previous.png|link=SB 7.7.19-20]] '''[[SB 7.7.19-20]] - [[SB 7.7.22]]''' [[File:Go-next.png|link=SB 7.7.22]]</div>
__NOTOC__
__NOEDITSECTION__

Latest revision as of 23:05, 18 February 2024

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada



TEXT 21

svarṇaṁ yathā grāvasu hema-kāraḥ
kṣetreṣu yogais tad-abhijña āpnuyāt
kṣetreṣu deheṣu tathātma-yogair
adhyātma-vid brahma-gatiṁ labheta


SYNONYMS

svarṇam — gold; yathā — just as; grāvasu — in the stones of gold ore; hema-kāraḥ — the expert who knows about gold; kṣetreṣu — in the gold mines; yogaiḥ — by various processes; tat-abhijñaḥ — an expert who can understand where gold is; āpnuyāt — very easily obtains; kṣetreṣu — within the material fields; deheṣu — the human bodies and all the rest of the 8,400,000 different bodily forms; tathā — similarly; ātma-yogaiḥ — by spiritual processes; adhyātma-vit — one who is expert in understanding the distinction between spirit and matter; brahma-gatim — perfection in spiritual life; labheta — may obtain.


TRANSLATION

An expert geologist can understand where there is gold and by various processes can extract it from the gold ore. Similarly, a spiritually advanced person can understand how the spiritual particle exists within the body, and thus by cultivating spiritual knowledge he can attain perfection in spiritual life. However, as one who is not expert cannot understand where there is gold, a foolish person who has not cultivated spiritual knowledge cannot understand how the spirit exists within the body.


PURPORT

Here is a very good example concerning spiritual understanding. Foolish rascals, including so-called jñānīs, philosophers and scientists, cannot understand the existence of the soul within the body because they are lacking in spiritual knowledge. The Vedas enjoin, tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet: (MU 1.2.12) to understand spiritual knowledge, one must approach a bona fide spiritual master. Unless one has been trained in geology, one cannot detect gold in stone. Similarly, unless one has been trained by a spiritual master, he cannot understand what is spirit and what is matter. Here it is said, yogais tad-abhijñaḥ. This indicates that one who has connected himself with spiritual knowledge can understand that there is a spiritual soul within the body. However, one who is in an animalistic conception of life and has no spiritual culture cannot understand. As an expert mineralogist or geologist can understand where there is gold and can then invest his money to dig there and chemically separate the gold from the ore, an expert spiritualist can understand where the soul is within matter. One who has not been trained cannot distinguish between gold and stone. Similarly, fools and rascals who have not learned from an expert spiritual master what is soul and what is matter cannot understand the existence of the soul within the body. To understand such knowledge, one must be trained in the mystic yoga system, or, finally, in the bhakti-yoga system. As stated in Bhagavad-gītā (BG 18.55), bhaktyā mām abhijānāti. Unless one takes shelter of the bhakti-yoga process, one cannot understand the existence of the soul within the body. Therefore Bhagavad-gītā begins by teaching:

dehino 'smin yathā dehe
kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā
tathā dehāntara-prāptir
dhīras tatra na muhyati

"As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change." (BG 2.13) Thus the first instruction is that one should understand that the soul is within the body and is transmigrating from one body to another. This is the beginning of spiritual knowledge. Any person who is not expert in understanding this science or is unwilling to understand it remains in the bodily conception of life, or the animalistic conception of life, as confirmed in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke. .. sa eva go-kharaḥ (10.84.13)). Every member of human society should clearly understand the instructions of Bhagavad-gītā, for only in this way can one be spiritually elevated and automatically give up the false, illusory knowledge by which one thinks, "I am this body, and everything belonging to this body is mine (ahaṁ mameti SB 5.5.8)." This doggish conception should be rejected immediately. One should be prepared to understand the spirit soul and the supreme spirit, God, who are eternally related. Thus one may return home, back to Godhead, having solved all the problems of life.



... more about "SB 7.7.21"
Prahlāda Mahārāja +
Prahlāda Mahārāja's school friends +