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CC Antya 18.51



His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada



TEXT 51

kibā brahma-daitya, kibā bhūta, kahane nā yāya
darśana-mātre manuṣyera paiśe sei kāya


SYNONYMS

kibā — whether; brahma-daitya — a brāhmaṇa ghost; kibā — or; bhūta — an ordinary ghost; kahane yāya — I cannot say; darśana-mātre — as soon as one sees; manuṣyera — of a man; paiśe — enters; sei kāya — that body.


TRANSLATION

"I do not know whether the corpse I found was the ghost of a dead brāhmaṇa or an ordinary man, but as soon as one looks upon it, the ghost enters his body.