Srimad Maha Bhagavatham : 4.5 - Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================== ======================================================================== Sunday, September 25, 2022. 07:00. Chapter-4: The Stories of Siva and Sati, and of Rishabhadeva and Bharata-5. ========================================================================= Yaṁ yaṁ vāpi smaran bhāvaṁ tyajaty ante kalevaram, taṁ tam evaiti kaunteya sadā tadbhāvabhāvitaḥ (B.G. 8.6): Whatever thought one remembers or entertains in the mind at the time of passing, that is the state you will attain in the next birth, says the Bhagavadgita. The body is a concentrated form of the mind itself. It is a condensation of thought. The mind manufactures this body for the purpose of the fulfilment of its desires. The body is necessary for the mind in order that it may contact physical objects through the sense organs. Otherwise, the mind by itself cannot contact physicality. So, as if its only duty is to come in contact with pleasurable object