🪷 ŚB 4.29.Texts 29.1a-2a

Sanskrit, transliteration, word meanings, and translation for steady Bhāgavata reading.

Sanskrit

सर्वेषामेव जन्तूनां सततं देहपोषणे । अस्ति प्रज्ञा समायत्ता को विशेषस्तदा नृणाम् ॥ १अ ॥ लब्ध्वेहान्ते मनुष्यत्वं हित्वा देहाद्यसद्ग्रहम् । आत्मसृत्या विहायेदं जीवात्मा स विशिष्यते ॥ २अ ॥

Transliteration

sarveṣām eva jantūnāṁ satataṁ deha-poṣaṇe asti prajñā samāyattā ko viśeṣas tadā nṛṇām
Synonyms
sarveṣām — all; eva — certainly; jantūnām — of animals; satatam — always; deha-poṣaṇe — to maintain the body; asti — there is; prajñā — intelligence; samāyattā — resting on; kaḥ — what; viśeṣaḥ — difference; tadā — then; nṛṇām — of the human beings; labdhvā — having attained; iha — here; ante — at the end of many births; manuṣyatvam — a human life; hitvā — after giving up; deha-ādi — in the gross and subtle body; asat-graham — an incorrect conception of life; ātma — of spiritual knowledge; sṛtyā — by the path; vihāya — having abandoned; idam — this body; jīva-ātmā — the individual spirit soul; saḥ — that; viśiṣyate — becomes prominent.

Translation

A desire to maintain body, wife and children is also observed in animal society. The animals have full intelligence to manage such affairs. If a human being is simply advanced in this respect, what is the difference between him and an animal? One should be very careful to understand that this human life is attained after many, many births in the evolutionary process. A learned man who gives up the bodily conception of life, both gross and subtle, will, by the enlightenment of spiritual knowledge, become a prominent individual spirit soul, as the Supreme Lord is also.

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