Soul Transmigrates as Body Changes – Sage Undisturbed

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Bhagavad-gītā 2.13 — August 19, 1973, London 730819BG-LONDON [31:16 Minutes] Bg-02.13_730819BG-LONDON Pradyumna: [leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā tathā dehāntara-prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati [Bg. 2.13] [00:27] [break] Translation: "As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change." Prabhupāda: Hmm. This simple thing they cannot understand. Therefore it is mentioned here, dhīras tatra na muhyati.

Dhīra means sober, cool-headed man. And just the opposite is adhīra. Adhīra means third-class, fourth-class man. Or rascals, adhīra.

Dhīra means sober. Just like... The exact translation is "gentleman," dhīra. Those who are not gentlemen, uncultured, uneducated, rascal, they cannot understand.

Otherwise where is the difficulty? How plainly, how easily explained that kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā. There are three stages, kaumāram. Up to fifteenth year, it is called kaumāra.

And then from sixteenth year, it begins youthful life up to fortieth year. Then after forty, one becomes jarā, old man. Primarily old man, and later on. Say, forty to fifty, primarily old man, and after fifty, he is old man.

Therefore it is advised, pañcāśordhvaṁ vanaṁ vrajet. Pañcāś means fifty; ūrdhvaṁ, fifty-one. And rest of the days, maybe one hundred years, but that is not possible nowadays. Maybe seventy, eighty, utmost.

Somebody lives ninety, ninety-five. Hundred years, although the limit, nowadays nobody lives. So those who are dhīra, gentlemen, sober-headed, cool-headed, they can understand that "I have changed my bodies. When I was a boy, up to fifteenth year, I remember how I was playing, how I was jumping. Then I became young man—how I was enjoying my life with friends and families.

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