Bhagavad Gita · 15.8 · The Yoga of the Supreme Divine Personality·8 of 20
शरीरं यदवाप्नोति यच्चाप्युत्क्रामतीश्वरः।गृहीत्वैतानि संयाति वायुर्गन्धानिवाशयात् ॥
śharīraṁ yad avāpnoti yach chāpy
utkrāmatīśhvaraḥ gṛihītvaitāni sanyāti vāyur gandhān ivāśhayāt
Sanskrit recitation
A spark of the divine in you · 15.7–15.11 · Teaching
Translation
When the Lord, as the individual soul, obtains a body and when He leaves it, He takes these with Him, just as the wind takes the scents from their seats (flowers, etc.).
Meaning
Here is a description of how the subtle body leaves the gross body.When the Jiva, the Lord of the aggregate of the body and the rest takes up this body he brings in with him the mind and the senses when he leavs the body at its dissolution he takes with him the senses and the mind, just as the wind carries with it the fragrance from the flowers. Wherever he goes and whatever form he assumes he again operates through these senses and the mind.Lord Jiva, the Lord of the aggregate of the body and the rest.The Self appears to be an agent or an enjoyer only when he possesses or assumes a body.
After Swami Sivananda
A spark of the divine in you· 15.7–15.11→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 15.7An eternal portion of Myself having become a living soul in the world of life, draws to itself the five senses, with the mind as the sixth, abiding in Nature.
15.8When the Lord, as the individual soul, obtains a body and when He leaves it, He takes these with Him, just as the wind takes the scents from their seats (flowers, etc.).
- 15.9Presiding over the ears, eyes, touch, taste, smell, and mind, it enjoys the objects of the senses.
- 15.10The deluded do not see Him who departs, stays, and enjoys; but those who possess the eye of knowledge behold Him.
- 15.11The yogis striving for perfection behold Him dwelling in the Self; but, the unrefined and unintelligent, even though striving, do not see Him.
Word-by-word→
- iva
- like
- yat
- as
- etāni
- these
- cha api
- also
- gandhān
- fragrance
- sanyāti
- goes away
- vāyuḥ
- the air
- avāpnoti
- carries
- utkrāmati
- leaves
- āśhayāt
- from seats
- śharīram
- the body
- gṛihītvā
- taking
- īśhvaraḥ
- the Lord of the material body, the embodied soul
Themes
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