Shloka 11
कर्मनाशाभावः, गर्भे जीवप्रवेशः, आचारधर्मोपदेशः
Karma’s Non-Extinction, Jīva’s Entry into the Embryo, and Instruction on Conduct-Dharma
यथा च दीप: शरणे दीप्यमान: प्रकाशते । एवमेव शरीराणि प्रकाशयति चेतना,जिस प्रकार जलता हुआ दीपक समूचे घरमें प्रकाश फैलाता है, उसी प्रकार जीवकी चैतन्य शक्ति शरीरके सब अवयवोंको प्रकाशित करती है
yathā ca dīpaḥ śaraṇe dīpyamānaḥ prakāśate | evam eva śarīrāṇi prakāśayati cetanā ||
यथा च दीपः शरणे दीप्यमानः प्रकाशते । एवमेव शरीराणि प्रकाशयति चेतना ॥
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Educational Q&A
Consciousness (cetanā) is the illuminating principle that makes the body’s faculties and experiences manifest, just as a lamp reveals what is inside a house; the body by itself is inert without that inner sentience.
A brāhmaṇa speaker delivers a philosophical instruction using a familiar metaphor (a lamp lighting a dwelling) to explain how consciousness pervades and ‘lights up’ the embodied condition.