SB 1.13.57

TEXT 57

TEXT

स वा अद्यतनाद्राजन् परतः पञ्चमे ऽहनि ।
कलेवरं हास्यति स्वं तच्च भस्मीभविष्यति ॥ ५७ ॥

sa va adya-tanad rajan

paratah pancame 'hani

kalevaram hasyati svam

tac ca bhasmibhavisyati

sah-he; va-in all probability; adya-today; tanat-from; rajan-O King; paratah-ahead; pancame-on the fifth; ahani-day; kalevaram-body; hasyati-shall quit; svam-his own; tat-that; ca-also; bhasmi-ashes; bhavisyati-will turn into.

Finally Dhrtarastra burned his own body to ashes by self-made mystic fire. After observing her husband burn in the fire along with his thatched cottage, his chaste wife, Gandhari, entered the fire with rapt attention.

TRANSLATION

O King, he will quit his body, most probably, on the fifth day from today. And his body will turn to ashes.

PURPORT

Narada Muni's prophecy prohibited Yudhisthira Maharaja to go to the place where his uncle was staying because even after quitting the body by his own mystic power, Dhrtarastra would not be in need of any funeral ceremony because Narada Muni indicated that his body by itself would burn to ashes. The perfection of the yoga system is attained by such mystic power: the yogi is able to quit his body by his own choice of time and can attain any planet he desires by turning the present body into ashes by self-made fire.

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