A Wonderful Story - part 3

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SB 7.2.45: In the body the most important substance is the life air,

but that also is neither the listener nor the speaker. Beyond even the

life air, the soul also can do nothing, for the Supersoul is actually

the director, in cooperation with the individual soul. The Supersoul

conducting the activities of the body is different from the body and

living force.

 

SB 7.2.46: The five material elements, the ten senses and the mind all

combine to form the various parts of the gross and subtle bodies. The

living entity comes in contact with his material bodies, whether high

or low, and later gives them up by his personal prowess. This strength

can be perceived in a living entity's personal power to possess

different types of bodies.

 

SB 7.2.47: As long as the spirit soul is covered by the subtle body,

consisting of the mind, intelligence and false ego, he is bound to the

results of his fruitive activities. Because of this covering, the

spirit soul is connected with the material energy and must accordingly

suffer material conditions and reversals, continually, life after life.

 

SB 7.2.48: It is fruitless to see and talk of the material modes of

nature and their resultant so-called happiness and distress as if they

were factual. When the mind wanders during the day and a man begins to

think himself extremely important, or when he dreams at night and sees

a beautiful woman enjoying with him, these are merely false dreams.

Similarly, the happiness and distress caused by the material senses

should be understood to be meaningless.

 

SB 7.2.49: Those who have full knowledge of self-realization, who know

very well that the spirit soul is eternal whereas the body is

perishable, are not overwhelmed by lamentation. But persons who lack

knowledge of self-realization certainly lament. Therefore it is

difficult to educate a person in illusion.

 

SB 7.2.50: There was once a hunter who lured birds with food and

captured them after spreading a net. He lived as if appointed by death

personified as the killer of the birds.

 

SB 7.2.51: While wandering in the forest, the hunter saw a pair of

kulinga birds. Of the two, the female was captivated by the hunter's

lure.

 

SB 7.2.52: O queens of Suyajna, the male kuli?ga bird, seeing his wife

put into the greatest danger in the grip of Providence, became very

unhappy. Because of affection, the poor bird, being unable to release

her, began to lament for his wife.

 

SB 7.2.53: Alas, how merciless is Providence! My wife, unable to be

helped by anyone, is in such an awkward position and lamenting for me.

What will Providence gain by taking away this poor bird? What will be

the profit?

 

SB 7.2.54: If unkind Providence takes away my wife, who is half my

body, why should He not take me also? What is the use of my living with

half of my body, bereaved by loss of my wife? What shall I gain in this

way?

 

SB 7.2.55: The unfortunate baby birds, bereft of their mother, are

waiting in the nest for her to feed them. They are still very small and

have not yet grown their wings. How shall I be able to maintain them?

 

SB 7.2.56: Because of the loss of his wife, the kulinga bird lamented

with tears in his eyes. Meanwhile, following the dictations of mature

time, the hunter, who was very carefully hidden in the distance,

released his arrow, which pierced the body of the kulinga bird and

killed him.

 

SB 7.2.57: Thus Yamaraja, in the guise of a small boy, told all the

queens: You are all so foolish that you lament but do not see your own

death. Afflicted by a poor fund of knowledge, you do not know that even

if you lament for your dead husband for hundreds of years, you will

never get him back alive, and in the meantime your lives will be

finished.

 

SB 7.2.58: Hiranyakasipu said: While Yamaraja, in the form of a small

boy, was instructing all the relatives surrounding the dead body of

Suyajna, everyone was struck with wonder by his philosophical words.

They could understand that everything material is temporary, not

continuing to exist.

 

SB 7.2.59: After instructing all the foolish relatives of Suyajna,

Yamaraja, in the form of a boy, disappeared from their vision. Then the

relatives of King Suyajna performed the ritualistic funeral ceremonies.

 

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