paty-apatya-gṛhātmakam

tām ātmano vijānīyāt

paty-apatya-gṛhātmakam

daivopasāditaṁ mṛtyuṁ

mṛgayor gāyanaṁ yathā

 

She should understand that māyā in the form of husband, children and house, supplied by fate is her own death, just the deer should understand that the song of the hunter is death.

 

She should understand that māyā in the form of husband and sons to be death, just as the deer should understand that the song of the greedy hunter, though pleasurable, is death.

 

 

|| 3.31.43 ||

dehena jīva-bhūtena

lokāl lokam anuvrajan

bhuñjāna eva karmāṇi

karoty avirataṁ pumān

 

The jīva wanders from the earth to other planets by his subtle body for enjoying the results of his actions, and completing that enjoyment (or suffering) again returns to the earth to perform actions.

 

Repeated birth and death of the jīva is described. There is a doubt. The jīva enjoys the results in Svarga or other places by giving up the body by which he performs sinful or pious acts. What is the logic in that? (He should experience the results in the same body.) In answer this verse says that he enjoys the results with the body by which he performed his acts—by the subtle body. By the subtle body (jīva-bhūtena dehena) he wanders from the earth to Svarga or hell. He performs actions by the acquisition of false identity (caused by the subtle body). Going to other places is possible because of the jīva’s illusion. In that place, he enjoys (bhuñjānaḥ). Finishing that enjoyment he again returns to the earth. He then performs further actions. Thus he performs actions and enjoys in the subtle body. That is explained in this verse.

 

|| 3.31.44 ||

jīvo hy asyānugo deho