PURPORT

As spirit does not annihilate ever after the annihilation of the material body so also spiritual consciousness does not annihilate. Sri Narada developed this spiritual consciousness even when he had the material body in the previous Kalpa. Consciousness of the material body means spiritual consciousness expressed, through the medium of material body. This consciousness is inferior, destructible and perverted. But super consciousness of the supra mind in the spiritual plane is as good as the spirit soul and is never annihilated.