SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM - Prabhupada

86 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 2TRANSLATIONIn the same way, 0 my gentle mother, when the mind is agitatedby the movements of the modes of material nature, the living entity,although freed from all the different phases of the subtle andgross bodies, thinks that he has changed from one condition toanother.PURPORTAs stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.84.13):yasydtma-buddhib, kur:wpe tri-dhatukesva-dhib, kalatrddi§u bhauma-ijya-dhib,yat-tirtha-buddhib, salile na karhicijjane abhifiieu sa eva go-kharab,"A human being who identifies the body made of three elements as theself, who considers the by-products of the body to be his kinsmen, whoconsiders the land of his birth worshipable, and who goes to a place ofpilgrimage simply to bathe rather than to meet men of transcendentalknowledge there, is to be considered like a cow or an ass." AlthoughHiral).yakasipu was a great demon, he was not as foolish as the populationof the modern world. Hiral).yakasipu had clear knowledge of the spiritsoul and the subtle and gross bodies, but now we are so degraded thateveryone, including the exalted scientists, philosophers and otherleaders, is under the bodily conception of life, which is condemned in thesiistras. Sa eva go-kharab,: such persons are nothing but cows and asses.Hiral).yakasipu advised his family members that although the grossbody of his brother Hiral).yiik?a was dead and they were aggrieved becauseof this, they should not lament for the g reat soul of Hiral).yiik?a,who had already attained his next destination. Atma, the spirit soul, is alwaysunchanged (avikalab, pumiin). We are spirit souls, but when carriedaway by mental activities (manodharma), we suffer from so-calledmaterial conditions of life. This generally happens to nondevotees. Haravabhaktasya kuto mahad-gw;iib,: nondevotees may possess exalted materialqualities, but because they are foolish they have no good qualifications.The designations of the conditioned soul in the material world are