Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 12 - Chapter 5

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 1 Sanskrit: श्रीशुक उवाचअत्रानुवर्ण्यतेऽभीक्ष्णं विश्वात्मा भगवान् हरि: ।यस्य प्रसादजो ब्रह्मा रुद्र: क्रोधसमुद्भ‍व: ॥ १ ॥ ITRANS: śrī-śuka uvācaatrānuvarṇyate ’bhīkṣṇaṁviśvātmā bhagavān hariḥyasya prasāda-jo brahmārudraḥ krodha-samudbhavaḥ Translation: Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: This Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam has elaborately described in various narrations the Supreme Soul of all that be — the Personality of Godhead, Hari — from whose satisfaction Brahmā is born and from whose anger Rudra takes birth....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2 Sanskrit: त्वं तु राजन् मरिष्येति पशुबुद्धिमिमां जहि ।न जात: प्रागभूतोऽद्य देहवत्त्वं न नङ्‌क्ष्यसि ॥ २ ॥ ITRANS: tvaṁ tu rājan mariṣyetipaśu-buddhim imāṁ jahina jātaḥ prāg abhūto ’dyadeha-vat tvaṁ na naṅkṣyasi Translation: O King, give up the animalistic mentality of thinking, “I am going to die.” Unlike the body, you have not taken birth. There was not a time in the past when you did not exist, and you are not about to be destroyed....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 3 Sanskrit: न भविष्यसि भूत्वा त्वं पुत्रपौत्रादिरूपवान् ।बीजाङ्कुरवद् देहादेर्व्यतिरिक्तो यथानल: ॥ ३ ॥ ITRANS: na bhaviṣyasi bhūtvā tvaṁputra-pautrādi-rūpavānbījāṅkura-vad dehādervyatirikto yathānalaḥ Translation: You will not take birth again in the form of your sons and grandsons, like a sprout taking birth from a seed and then generating a new seed. Rather, you are entirely distinct from the material body and its paraphernalia, in the same way that fire is distinct from its fuel....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 4 Sanskrit: स्वप्ने यथा शिरश्छेदं पञ्चत्वाद्यात्मन: स्वयम् ।यस्मात् पश्यति देहस्य तत आत्मा ह्यजोऽमर: ॥ ४ ॥ ITRANS: svapne yathā śiraś-chedaṁpañcatvādy ātmanaḥ svayamyasmāt paśyati dehasyatata ātmā hy ajo ’maraḥ Translation: In a dream one can see his own head being cut off and thus understand that his actual self is standing apart from the dream experience. Similarly, while awake one can see that his body is a product of the five material elements....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 5 Sanskrit: घटे भिन्ने घटाकाश आकाश: स्याद् यथा पुरा ।एवं देहे मृते जीवो ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते पुन: ॥ ५ ॥ ITRANS: ghaṭe bhinne ghaṭākāśaākāśaḥ syād yathā purāevaṁ dehe mṛte jīvobrahma sampadyate punaḥ Translation: When a pot is broken, the portion of sky within the pot remains as the element sky, just as before. In the same way, when the gross and subtle bodies die, the living entity within resumes his spiritual identity....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 6 Sanskrit: मन: सृजति वै देहान् गुणान् कर्माणि चात्मन: ।तन्मन: सृजते माया ततो जीवस्य संसृति: ॥ ६ ॥ ITRANS: manaḥ sṛjati vai dehānguṇān karmāṇi cātmanaḥtan manaḥ sṛjate māyātato jīvasya saṁsṛtiḥ Translation: The material bodies, qualities and activities of the spirit soul are created by the material mind. That mind is itself created by the illusory potency of the Supreme Lord, and thus the soul assumes material existence....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 7 Sanskrit: स्‍नेहाधिष्ठानवर्त्यग्निसंयोगो यावदीयते ।तावद्दीपस्य दीपत्वमेवं देहकृतो भव: ।रज:सत्त्वतमोवृत्त्या जायतेऽथ विनश्यति ॥ ७ ॥ ITRANS: snehādhiṣṭhāna-varty-agni-saṁyogo yāvad īyatetāvad dīpasya dīpatvamevaṁ deha-kṛto bhavaḥrajaḥ-sattva-tamo-vṛttyājāyate ’tha vinaśyati Translation: A lamp functions as such only by the combination of its fuel, vessel, wick and fire. Similarly, material life, based on the soul’s identification with the body, is developed and destroyed by the workings of material goodness, passion and ignorance, which are the constituent elements of the body....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 8 Sanskrit: न तत्रात्मा स्वयंज्योतिर्यो व्यक्ताव्यक्तयो: पर: ।आकाश इव चाधारो ध्रुवोऽनन्तोपमस्तत: ॥ ८ ॥ ITRANS: na tatrātmā svayaṁ-jyotiryo vyaktāvyaktayoḥ paraḥākāśa iva cādhārodhruvo ’nantopamas tataḥ Translation: The soul within the body is self-luminous and is separate from the visible gross body and invisible subtle body. It remains as the fixed basis of changing bodily existence, just as the ethereal sky is the unchanging background of material transformation....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 9 Sanskrit: एवमात्मानमात्मस्थमात्मनैवामृश प्रभो ।बुद्ध्यानुमानगर्भिण्या वासुदेवानुचिन्तया ॥ ९ ॥ ITRANS: evam ātmānam ātma-sthamātmanaivāmṛśa prabhobuddhyānumāna-garbhiṇyāvāsudevānucintayā Translation: My dear King, by constantly meditating upon the Supreme Lord, Vāsudeva, and by applying clear and logical intelligence, you should carefully consider your true self and how it is situated within the material body. Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 10 Sanskrit: चोदितो विप्रवाक्येन न त्वां धक्ष्यति तक्षक: ।मृत्यवो नोपधक्ष्यन्ति मृत्यूनां मृत्युमीश्वरम् ॥ १० ॥ ITRANS: codito vipra-vākyenana tvāṁ dhakṣyati takṣakaḥmṛtyavo nopadhakṣyantimṛtyūnāṁ mṛtyum īśvaram Translation: The snake-bird Takṣaka, sent by the curse of the brāhmaṇa, will not burn your true self. The agents of death will never burn such a master of the self as you, for you have already conquered all dangers on your path back to Godhead....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 11-12 Sanskrit: अहं ब्रह्म परं धाम ब्रह्माहं परमं पदम् ।एवं समीक्ष्य चात्मानमात्मन्याधाय निष्कले ॥ ११ ॥दशन्तं तक्षकं पादे लेलिहानं विषाननै: ।न द्रक्ष्यसि शरीरं च विश्वं च पृथगात्मन: ॥ १२ ॥ ITRANS: ahaṁ brahma paraṁ dhāmabrahmāhaṁ paramaṁ padamevaṁ samīkṣya cātmānamātmany ādhāya niṣkale Translation: You should consider, “I am nondifferent from the Absolute Truth, the supreme abode, and that Absolute Truth, the supreme destination, is nondifferent from me....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 13 Sanskrit: एतत्ते कथितं तात यदात्मा पृष्टवान् नृप ।हरेर्विश्वात्मनश्चेष्टां किं भूय: श्रोतुमिच्छसि ॥ १३ ॥ ITRANS: etat te kathitaṁ tātayad ātmā pṛṣṭavān nṛpaharer viśvātmanaś ceṣṭāṁkiṁ bhūyaḥ śrotum icchasi Translation: Beloved King Parīkṣit, I have narrated to you the topics you originally inquired about — the pastimes of Lord Hari, the Supreme Soul of the universe. Now, what more do you wish to hear?...