SB 3.28.38
[32:43 Minutes]
TEXT 38
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TRANSLATION
The body of such a liberated yogi is taken charge of by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and it works until the destined activities along with the senses are finished. Such liberated devotee, being awakened to his constitutional position, does not accept the byproducts of the material body as primarily his own on account of his being situated in samadhi, the highest perfectional stage of yoga practice, and he accepts the bodily activities as if the activities of the body in dream.
PURPORT
It may be questioned the liberated soul, so long he is in contact with the body, why not accept it that the bodily activities done by the liberated soul affects him so that he becomes again contaminated by the action and reaction of the material activities? In answer to this, this verse explains that the material body of the liberated soul is taken charge of by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The very word, daiva-vasagaḥ (d-a-i-v-a), daiva-vasagaḥ (v-a-s-a-g-a-h). Daiva-vasagaḥ means it is not acting by the living force of the living entity, but it is simply acting as reaction of the past movements. Just like an electric fan, even after being switched off, it moves for some time. That movement is not due to the electric current, but that is a continuation of the last movement. Similarly, a liberated soul although appears to be acting just like ordinary man, but such actions are to be accepted as a continuation of the past activities. And in other words, it is explained just like in the dream we see so..., we see so many bodies expanded through me, but when I am awakened I can understand that those bodies were all false. Similarly, a liberated soul, although he has got the byproducts of the body, namely children, wife, house, and everything, but he does not identify himself with those bodily expansions. He thinks that they are all production of this material dream. Actually they are the production of material dream. Just like this body is made of gross elements of matter, similarly the subtle body is made of mind, intelligence, ego and consciousness. So if the production of the subtle body can be taken as false without identifying oneself with that body, similarly an awakened person does not identify with the gross body also. As one has no connection with the activities of the body in dream, similarly a awakened liberated soul has no connection with the activities of the present body. In other words, being…, going to his constitutional position, he never comes down to the position of bodily concept of life.
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