TEXT 23
pasuvad yavanair esa
niyamanah svakam ksayam
anvadravann anupathah
socanto bhrsam aturah
SYNONYMS
pasu-vatlike an animal; yavanaihby the Yavanas; esahPuranjana; niyamanahbeing arrested and taken away; svakamto their own; ksayamabode; anvadravanfollowed; anupathahhis attendants; socantahlamenting; bhrsamgreatly; aturahbeing distressed.
TRANSLATION
When the Yavanas were taking King Puranjana away to their place, binding him like an animal, the Kings followers became greatly aggrieved. While they lamented, they were forced to go along with him.
PURPORT
When Yamaraja and his assistants take a living entity away to the place of judgment, the life, life air and desires, being followers of the living entity, also go with him. This is confirmed in the Vedas. When the living entity is taken away or arrested by Yamaraja (tam utkramantam), the life air also goes with him (prano nutkramati), and when the life air is gone (pranam anutkramantam), all the senses (sarve pranah) also go along (anutkramanti). When the living entity and the life air are gone, the lump of matter produced of five elementsearth, water, air, fire and etheris rejected and left behind. The living entity then goes to the court of judgment, and Yamaraja decides what kind of body he is going to get next. This process is unknown to modern scientists. Every living entity is responsible for his activities in this life, and after death he is taken to the court of Yamaraja, where it is decided what kind of body he will take next. Although the gross material body is left, the living entity and his desires, as well as the resultant reactions of his past activities, go on. It is Yamaraja who decides what kind of body one gets next in accordance with ones past actions.

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