SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM - Prabhupada

Text 24) Hirayak&Sipu, King of the Demons 85times feels that the land is moving. Similarly, the reflections of trees in aflowing river also appear to move. These are the actions of maya. Actuallythe living entity does not move (sthar:tur acalo yam). The livingentity does not take birth or accept death, but because of the transientsubtle and gross bodies, the living entity appears to move from one placeto another or be dead and gone forever. As the great Bengali V aiQ.avapoet, Jagadananda Par:tQita, has said:piSiici paile yena mati-cchanna hayamdya-grasta jivera haya se bhava udayaAccording to this statement from the Prema-vivarta, when a living entityis conditioned by material nature, he is exactly like a person haunted bya ghost. One should therefore understand the fixed position of the spiritsoul and how he is carried away by the waves of material nature to differentbodies and different situations under lamentation and hankering.One achieves the success of life when he understands the constitutionalposition of his self and is undisturbed by the conditions created by materialnature (prakrte kriyamdTJdni gur:tai karmdr:ti saroa.SaM.TEXT 24 gumi+tt¥4101 N-: 1 +ttf mt(l tr.R 11\lllevam gur:tair bhramyamdr:temanasy avikala pumdnyati tat-samyatam bhadrehy alingo lingavan ivaevam-in this way; gur:tai-by the modes of material nature;bhramyamdr:te-when shaken; manasi-the mind; avikala-changeless;pumdn-the living entity; yati-approaches; tat-samyatam-thesame condition of agitation as the mind; bhadre-0 my gentle mother;hi-indeed; alinga-without a subtle or gross body; linga-vanpossessinga material body; iva-as if.