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Bhagavad-gītā As It Is · Text 15.10

The jīva as Krishna’s eternal fragmental part

उत्क्रामन्तं स्थितं वाऽपि भुञ्जानं वा गुणान्वितम् ।

विमूढा नानुपश्यन्ति पश्यन्ति ज्ञानचक्षुष: ॥ १० ॥

utkrāmantaṁ sthitaṁ vāpi

bhuñjānaṁ vā guṇānvitam

vimūḍhā nānupaśyanti

paśyanti jñāna-cakṣuṣaḥ

Translation

The foolish cannot understand how a living entity can quit his body, nor can they understand what sort of body he enjoys under the spell of the modes of nature. But one whose eyes are trained in knowledge can see all this.

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Seeing Through Spiritual Knowledge

  1. 1Those without knowledge cannot understand how the soul leaves a body or enjoys under material nature, but those trained in knowledge can.
  2. 2Prabhupāda explains that the soul is different from the body. Lust and desire hide this understanding and keep one caught in material happiness and distress.
  3. 3Learn spiritual knowledge from a genuine spiritual master and become Kṛṣṇa conscious to leave material suffering and reach the spiritual world.

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Chapter 15, The Yoga of the Supreme Person: the jīva as krishna’s eternal fragmental part.

What it teaches

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Discern the eternal self from the temporary.

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Key ideas: ātmā, jñāna.

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