Bhagavatapurana 12.5

English (machine translation) 12.5

Language: English

12.5.1

Śrī Śuka said: / Here is constantly celebrated the Lord Hari, the self of the universe, / from whose grace Brahmā was born, and Rudra arose from his anger.

12.5.2

O king, cast away this animal notion, 'I shall die': / you were not born, nor did you not exist previously, nor today will you perish like the body.

12.5.3

You will not become, having come into being, one having the form of sons, grandsons, and so forth, / like a sprout from a seed; you are distinct from the body and the rest, just as fire [from wood].

12.5.4

Since one perceives by oneself in a dream the decapitation of one's head and the death, etc., / of the body, therefore the self is indeed unborn and immortal.

12.5.5

When a pot is broken, the pot-space becomes space just as before; / likewise, when the body dies, the individual soul attains Brahman once more.

12.5.6

The mind indeed produces the bodies, the qualities, and the karmic actions of the soul; / creative power creates that mind, and from that arises the transmigration of the individual soul.

As long as the combination of oil, container, wick, and fire is observed, / so long does the lamp have the nature of a lamp; likewise, existence produced by the body / is born and then destroyed through the activity of passion, purity, and darkness.

12.5.8

There the self is self-luminous, beyond both the manifest and the unmanifest; / like space, it is the support, constant, and therefore comparable to infinity.

12.5.9

Thus reflect upon the self dwelling in yourself by yourself, O master, / with an intellect full of reasoning and through meditation upon Vāsudeva.

12.5.10

Impelled by the brahmin's words, Takṣaka will not burn you; / deaths will not burn the Ruler, the death of deaths.

12.5.11

'I am Brahman, the supreme abode; I am Brahman, the supreme state'— / having thus understood, and having placed the self in the indivisible self,

12.5.12

you will not see Takṣaka biting your foot and licking with mouths full of poison, / nor your body, nor the universe, as separate from the self.

12.5.13

This has been told to you, dear one, which you asked concerning yourself, O king, / [and] the activity of Hari, the self of the universe; what more do you wish to hear?

Translations (1)

The Srimad Bhagavatam — S. Subba Rau 1928, English

Commentaries (2)

Bhāgavatacandrikā — Vīrarāghava, Sanskrit
Padaratnāvalī — Vijayadhvaja Tīrtha, Sanskrit

Linked texts (1)

Bhāgavatapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit