Shloka 24
कर्मनाशाभावः, गर्भे जीवप्रवेशः, आचारधर्मोपदेशः
Karma’s Non-Extinction, Jīva’s Entry into the Embryo, and Instruction on Conduct-Dharma
शरीरग्रहणं चास्य केन पूर्व प्रकल्पितम् । इत्येवं संशयो लोके तच्च वक्ष्याम्पत: परम्
śarīra-grahaṇaṁ cāsya kena pūrvaṁ prakalpitam | ity evaṁ saṁśayo loke tac ca vakṣyāmi tataḥ param ||
“আৰু এই আত্মাই দেহ ধাৰণ কৰাৰ এই প্ৰথা সৰ্বপ্ৰথম কোনে প্ৰৱৰ্তন কৰিলে? এনেকুৱা সংশয় জগতত প্ৰায়েই উঠে। সেয়ে এতিয়া মই তাৰ উত্তৰ ক্ৰমে ক’ম।”
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames a philosophical inquiry: embodiment is not treated as a random accident but as something with an intelligible origin or ordinance. The speaker signals a structured explanation, encouraging disciplined questioning and reasoned teaching about the Self’s relation to the body.
A Brahmin speaker responds to a commonly held doubt—who first established the ‘practice’ of the Self assuming a body—and announces that he will explain the matter step by step in the subsequent discourse.