Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.15.8
देहदेहिविभागोऽयमविवेककृत: पुरा ।
जातिव्यक्तिविभागोऽयं यथा वस्तुनि कल्पित: ॥ ८ ॥
deha-dehi-vibhāgo ’yam
[deha-dehi-vibhaago ’yam]
aviveka-kṛtaḥ purā
[aviveka-kritah puraa]
jāti-vyakti-vibhāgo ’yaṁ
[jaati-vyakti-vibhaago ’yam]
yathā vastuni kalpitaḥ
[yathaa vastuni kalpitah]
Word-for-word
deha
—
of this body
dehi
—
and the proprietor of the body
vibhāgaḥ
—
the division
ayam
—
this
aviveka
—
from ignorance
kṛtaḥ
—
made
purā
—
from time immemorial
jāti
—
of the class or caste
vyakti
—
and the individual
vibhāgaḥ
—
division
ayam
—
this
yathā
—
just as
vastuni
—
in the original object
kalpitaḥ
—
imagined.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
deha-dehi-vibhāgo ’yam
deha
of this body
dehi
and the proprietor of the body
vibhāgaḥ
the division
ayam
this
aviveka-kṛtaḥ purā
aviveka
from ignorance
kṛtaḥ
made
purā
from time immemorial
jāti-vyakti-vibhāgo ’yaṁ
jāti
of the class or caste
vyakti
and the individual
vibhāgaḥ
division
ayam
this
yathā
just as
yathā vastuni kalpitaḥ
vastuni
in the original object
kalpitaḥ
imagined.
Divisions of generalization and specification, such as nationality and individuality, are the imaginations of persons who are not advanced in knowledge.
Purport
Actually there are two energies — material and spiritual. Both of them are ever-existing because they are emanations from the eternal truth, the Supreme Lord. Because the individual soul, the individual living entity, has desired to act in forgetfulness of his original identity since time immemorial, he is accepting different positions in material bodies and being designated according to many divisions of nationality, community, society, species and so on.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
Just as divisions of general and specific are imagined in the absolute, so divisions of body and soul with mutual dependence are imagined because of beginningless ignorance.
“Since the soul is the partner with the temporary body, it should also be temporary.” The distinction of soul and body which seem to be mutually dependent is produced from beginningless ignorance, just as the division of generic (jāti) and specific (vyakti) in the eternal Brahman is imaginary, since it cannot be discerned that they are mutually dependent.
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Personal Guidance
Divisions like nationality and individuality are imaginations of those not advanced in knowledge. Identities seem solid until you put them under the light of soul-knowledge.
Reflection Questions
- Which of my identity-categories survive contact with the soul's reality, and which dissolve?
- Where am I clinging to a category that won't outlast my body?
My note
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