Shloka 75
Nārada Explains the Allegory of King Purañjana
Deha–Indriya–Manaḥ Mapping and the Remedy of Bhakti
अनेन पुरुषो देहानुपादत्ते विमुञ्चति । हर्षं शोकं भयं दु:खं सुखं चानेन विन्दति ॥ ७५ ॥
anena puruṣo dehān upādatte vimuñcati harṣaṁ śokaṁ bhayaṁ duḥkhaṁ sukhaṁ cānena vindati
بهذا اللِنگ اللطيف (الجسد اللطيف) يتخذ الكائن أجسادًا كثيفة ويتركها؛ وبه أيضًا يذوق الفرح والحزن والخوف والألم واللذة.
According to this explanation, one can clearly understand that originally the living entity was as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead in his pure, spiritual existence. However, when the mind becomes polluted by desires for sense gratification in the material world, the living entity drops into the material conditions, as explained in this verse. Thus he begins his material existence, which means that he transmigrates from one body to another and becomes more and more entangled in material existence. The process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, by which one always thinks of Kṛṣṇa, is the transcendental process by which one can revert to his original, spiritual existence. Devotional service means always thinking of Kṛṣṇa:
FAQs
This verse explains that joy, grief, fear, distress, and happiness arise through the same instrument—material identification centered in the mind—by which the soul takes and leaves bodies.
Narada instructed the king to rise above bodily identification and ritualistic attachment by understanding how the mind binds the soul to repeated birth and the dualities of pleasure and pain.
Observe emotions without self-identifying with them, and redirect the mind toward devotion (bhakti) and spiritual hearing/chanting, reducing fear and grief rooted in bodily attachment.