SB 1.15.42 (1965)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT No. 42
- Tritwe hutwa cha panchatwam tat cha ekatwe juhot munih
- Sarvam atmani ajuhobit brahmani atmanam avyaye.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS
Tritwe—unto the trio qualities, hutwa—having offered, Cha—also, Panchtwam—five elements, Tat—that, Cha—also, Ekatwe—in one nescience, Juhot—amalgamated, Munih—the thoughtful, Sarvam—the Sumtotal, Atmani—in the Soul, Ajuhobit—fixed up, Brahmani—unto the spirit, Avyaye—unto the inexhaustible.
TRANSLATION
Thus conceiving annihilation of the gross body of five elements in the three qualitative modes of material nature merged them in one nescience and then again he absorbed nescience in self Brahman which is inexhaustible at all circumstances.
PURPORT
All that we have manifested in the material world are different productions of the Mahat Tattwa Avydkta and things that are visible in our material vision are nothing but a combination and permutation of such variegated material products. But the living entity is different from such material products. It is due to the forgetfulness of the living entity of his eternal nature as eternal servitor of the Lord and on account of his false conception of becoming a so called Lord of the material nature, that he is obliged to enter into existence of false sense enjoyment and a concomitant generation of material energy are two principal causes of the mind being materially affected and thus the gross body of five elements produced. Maharaj Yudhisthir thus reverted the action that he merged the five elements of the body in the three modes of material nature. The qualitative distinction of the body as being good, bad or via media thus extinguished and again such qualitative manifestations also became merged in material energy which was produced from a false sense of the pure living being. When one is thus inclined to become an associate of the Supreme Lord the Personality of Godhead in one of the innumerable planets of the spiritual sky specially in Goloka Vrindaban, one has to think always that he is different from the material energy, he has nothing to do with them and he has to pose himself as pure spirit or Brahman qualitatively equal with the Supreme Brahman (Parameswara). Maharaj Yudhisthir after distributing his kingdom to Parikshit and Vajra thought himself not the emperor of the world or the head of the Kuru dynasty. This sense of freedom from material relations as well as getting free from material encagement of the gross and subtle encirclement makes one free to act as the servitor of the Lord even though one is in the material world and this stage is called Jivanmukta stage or the liberated stage while remaining even in the material world. That is the process of ending material existence not only by thinking that he is Brahman, but also by acting like Brahman. One who thinks only as Brahman is the impersonalist. And one who acts like a Brahmin is the pure devotee.