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शरीरं यदवाप्नोति यच्चाप्युत्क्रामतीश्वरः।गृहीत्वैतानि संयाति वायुर्गन्धानिवाशयात्।।15.8।।

śharīraṁ yad avāpnoti yach chāpy utkrāmatīśhvaraḥ gṛihītvaitāni sanyāti vāyur gandhān ivāśhayāt

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 15, Verse 8
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
When the Lord, as the individual soul, obtains a body and when He leaves it, He takes these with Him, just as the wind takes the scents from their seats (flowers, etc.).

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Why: when the Lord obtains a body and when he leaves it, he takes these senses and goes, as the wind carries fragrances from their source, again using a simple, natural image, wind carrying scent, for how something essential moves between different temporary forms.

In life: something essential about your character or values tends to carry forward with you across very different life chapters, jobs, relationships, locations, even when the surrounding form changes completely.

Teaching: identify what has actually carried forward consistently across your own very different life chapters so far, that consistent thread, like scent carried by wind, is worth deliberately recognizing and protecting as you move into whatever chapter comes next.

śharīramthe body
yatas
avāpnoticarries
yatas
cha apialso
utkrāmatileaves
īśhvaraḥthe Lord of the material body, the embodied soul
gṛihītvātaking
etānithese
sanyātigoes away
vāyuḥthe air
gandhānfragrance
ivalike
āśhayātfrom seats

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
15.8 शरीरम् a body? यत् when? अवाप्नोति obtains? यत् when? च and? अपि also? उत्क्रामति leaves? ईश्वरः the Lord? गृहीत्वा taking? एतानि these? संयाति goes? वायुः the wind? गन्धान् the scents? इव as? आशयात् from (their) seats (the flowers).Commentary Here is a description of how the subtle body leaves the gross body.When the Jiva? the Lord of the aggregate of the body and the rest takes up this body he brings in with him the mind and the senses when he leavs the body at its dissolution he takes with him the senses and the mind? just as the wind carries with it the fragrance from the flowers. Wherever he goes and whatever form he assumes he again operates through these senses and the mind.Lord Jiva? the Lord of the aggregate of the body and the rest.The Self appears to be an agent or an enjoyer only when he possesses or assumes a body.