Site menu(1) S'rî S'uka said: 'In this [narration] I
have elaborately described the Supreme Lord Hari, the Soul of Everyone
from whose grace Lord Brahmâ was born [3.8] from whose anger Lord S'iva [3.12:
7] took birth. (2) O King, you who think 'I am going to die',
must give up this animalistic mentality; contrary to the body that
didn't exist before and shall perish again you never took your birth
nor will you ever be destroyed [see also B.G. 2:
12 & 2:
20]. (3) You will not get a new life as a child of
yours or in the form of a grandchild the way a plant sprouts from its
own seed; you differ from the body and what belongs to it as much as
fire [differs from the wood in which it is found *]. 
(4)
Because one, alike in a dream seeing one's head cut off, is the witness
of one's own self composed of the five material elements, is therefore
the body it's soul undoubtedly unborn and immortal [see also B.G. 2:
22]. (5) When a pot is broken the air in the pot
remains the air as before; similarly returns, when the body is given
up, the individual soul to his spiritual origin. (6) The physical bodies, qualities and actions
of the spirit soul are the result of having a materially oriented mind;
and it is mâyâ, the illusory potency of the Lord,
that brings about the mind with the consequent material existence of an
individual living being [through ahankâra, see also 2.5:
25, 3.26: 31-32, 3.27:
2-5]. (7) The combination of oil, a vessel, a wick and
fire is what one sees together in the functioning of a lamp, similarly
one finds, developed and destroyed by the action of the modes of
passion, ignorance and goodness, the material existence of [an
individual soul inhabiting] a functioning body. (8) The soul being different from the gross [deha] and the subtle [linga], is self-luminous, and constitutes, because
it is as unchanging as the sky, the foundation [âdhâra]
that is eternal and beyond comparison. (9)
O prabhu, this way in meditation upon Vâsudeva engaging your
intelligence for the sake of that what is true, you should carefully
consider your essence that is covered by your physical frame. (10) Takshaka [the snake-bird] sent by the words
of the brahmin [1.18]
will not burn you; the messengers of death cannot supersede you who
[now] have mastered the causes of death and death itself [see also 11.31: 12]. (11-12) 'I am the Original Supreme Spirit, the Abode
of the Absolute and the Supreme Destination'; with this consideration
placing yourself within the Supreme Self that is free from material
designations, you will, with the entire world thus set apart from the
self, not even notice Takshaka or your own body when he, licking his
lips and with his mouth full of poison, bites your foot. (13) Dearest soul, is there anything more you
want to know, o King, after all that I in response to your questions
told you about the pastimes of the Lord?'
(4)
Because one, alike in a dream seeing one's head cut off, is the witness
of one's own self composed of the five material elements, is therefore
the body it's soul undoubtedly unborn and immortal [see also B.G. 2:
22]. (5) When a pot is broken the air in the pot
remains the air as before; similarly returns, when the body is given
up, the individual soul to his spiritual origin. (6) The physical bodies, qualities and actions
of the spirit soul are the result of having a materially oriented mind;
and it is mâyâ, the illusory potency of the Lord,
that brings about the mind with the consequent material existence of an
individual living being [through ahankâra, see also 2.5:
25, 3.26: 31-32, 3.27:
2-5]. (7) The combination of oil, a vessel, a wick and
fire is what one sees together in the functioning of a lamp, similarly
one finds, developed and destroyed by the action of the modes of
passion, ignorance and goodness, the material existence of [an
individual soul inhabiting] a functioning body. (8) The soul being different from the gross [deha] and the subtle [linga], is self-luminous, and constitutes, because
it is as unchanging as the sky, the foundation [âdhâra]
that is eternal and beyond comparison. (9)
O prabhu, this way in meditation upon Vâsudeva engaging your
intelligence for the sake of that what is true, you should carefully
consider your essence that is covered by your physical frame. (10) Takshaka [the snake-bird] sent by the words
of the brahmin [1.18]
will not burn you; the messengers of death cannot supersede you who
[now] have mastered the causes of death and death itself [see also 11.31: 12]. (11-12) 'I am the Original Supreme Spirit, the Abode
of the Absolute and the Supreme Destination'; with this consideration
placing yourself within the Supreme Self that is free from material
designations, you will, with the entire world thus set apart from the
self, not even notice Takshaka or your own body when he, licking his
lips and with his mouth full of poison, bites your foot. (13) Dearest soul, is there anything more you
want to know, o King, after all that I in response to your questions
told you about the pastimes of the Lord?'