SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM - Prabhupada

108 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 7, Ch. 2is certainly comparable to an animal (yasyatma-buddhi!J kur:wpe tridhatuke... sa eva go-khara!l}. But even a common man can understandthat after death a person is gone. Although the body is still there, a deadman's relatives lament that the person has gone away, for a common mansees the body but cannot see the soul. As described in Bhagavad-gitd,dehirw 'smin yatha dehe: the soul, the proprietor of the body, is within.After death, when the breath within the nostrils has stopped, one canunderstand that the person within the body, who was hearing and replying,has now gone. Therefore, in effect, the common man ooncludes thatactually the spirit soul was different from the body and has now goneaway. Thus even a common man, coming to his senses, can know that thereal person who was within the body and was hearing and replying wasnever seen. For that which was never seen, what is the need oflamentation?TEXT45;{ '1\n ;ud:t'ffilti SQft : 1·qiWfl¥{1 {{: ihll\lllna srotd ndnuvaktayammukhyo 'py atra mahan asu}J,yas tv ihendriyavdn atmasa canya}J, prar:w-dehayo!Jna-not; srotd-the listener; na-not; anuvakta-the speaker;ayam-this; mukhya!J-chief; api-although; atra-in this body;mahan-the great; asufJ-life air; ya!J-he who; tu-but; iha-in thisbody; indriya-vdn-possessing all the sense organs; dtmd-the soul;safJ-he; ca-and; anya}J,-different; prar:w-dehayo!J-from the lifeair and the material body.TRANSLATIONIn the body the most important substance is the life air, but thatalso is neither the listener nor the speaker. Beyond even the lifeair, the soul also can do nothing, for the Supersoul is actually thedirector, in cooperation with the individual soul. The Supersoul