Bhagvad Gita 15.10 - how a living entity can quit his body?

Question

utkrāmantaṁ sthitaṁ vāpi
bhuñjānaṁ vā guṇānvitam
vimūḍhā nānupaśyanti
paśyanti jñāna-cakṣuṣaḥ

utkrāmantam — quitting the body; sthitam — situated in the body; vā api — either; bhuñjānam — enjoying; vā — or; guṇa-anvitam — under the spell of the modes of material nature; vimūḍhāḥ — foolish persons; na — never; anupaśyanti — can see; paśyanti — can see; jñāna-cakṣuṣaḥ — those who have the eyes of knowledge.

The foolish cannot understand how a living entity can quit his body, nor can they understand what sort of body he enjoys under the spell of the modes of nature. But one whose eyes are trained in knowledge can see all this.

Purport:
The word jñāna-cakṣuṣaḥ is very significant. Without knowledge, one cannot understand how a living entity leaves his present body, nor what form of body he is going to take in the next life, nor even why he is living in a particular type of body. This requires a great amount of knowledge understood from Bhagavad-gītā and similar literatures heard from a bona fide spiritual master. One who is trained to perceive all these things is fortunate. Every living entity is quitting his body under certain circumstances, he is living under certain circumstances, and he is enjoying under certain circumstances under the spell of material nature. As a result, he is suffering different kinds of happiness and distress, under the illusion of sense enjoyment. Persons who are everlastingly fooled by lust and desire lose all power to understand their change of body and their stay in a particular body. They cannot comprehend it. Those who have developed spiritual knowledge, however, can see that the spirit is different from the body and is changing its body and enjoying in different ways. A person in such knowledge can understand how the conditioned living entity is suffering in this material existence.

From above --> Every living entity is quitting his body under certain circumstances -- What circumstances and how??

Flute · Accepted Answer

I think you should introspect on the word living entity.

What is a living entity? The body? If it is so, a body can not quit the body.

Is it the Soul (Aatman)? Then, it can not be addressed as 'living entity'. For, it is eternal and can not be either addressed as born, living, dying etc.

Na jayate mriyate va kadacin
(Never born, Or never dead)
Nayam bhutva bhavita va na bhuyah
(It is not aas if it was there and now not, nor is it that it will not be hereafter)
Ajo nityah sasvato 'yam purano
(Unborn, ever existing, very old)
Na hanyate hanyamane sarire
(ot capable of killing or getting killed) BG-II.20

I, therefore, take the question to mean "how the soul gets embodied and the embodied soul quit that body?"

The answers are in the Bhagavatgeeta itself:

It is the fruits of actions executed by a body, embodied by a soul, that is responsible for the soul to get embodied, for, the soul is the energy giver to the body in terms of wisdom, discretion and in respect of choices of action.

The soul leaves the body when it finds that body is not useful to it any more (Vaasaamsi jirnaani yathaa vihaaya navaani gruhnaati naroparaani.....Chaptrer II.) and continues its further embodiments till the fruits karma are exhausted.

Vaasaamsi jirnaani yathaa vihaaya
(Just as discarding a torn cloth)
Navaani grhnaati naro 'paraani
(a person takes on a new one)
Tathaa sariraani vihaaya jirnani
(In the same manner leaving the worn out bodies
Anyaani samyaati navaani dehi
(the embodied soul reaches the new ones) BG II.22

Dev · Answer

In Bhagvad Gita, the lord says that he acts carefully because others will imitate or follow him. Then why some believe that Radha and Krsna were not a couple ?

Jaysinh · Answer

Your scholastic question itself has your answer.

Vimudha can not see through their normal eyes. Only those who have eyes of knowledge one can see.

Still with my little knowledge and for all practical purpose, I can say that only the death due to which living entity leaves body.

smkeller · Answer

Bhagvad Gita, the most ancient text in the world - and some of the most intuitive and profound.

odampully · Answer

You will get the answer from Gita itself. Read the verse starting with "Prayaanakaale......."
Krishna advises "Rajayoga" to Arjuna here. But the preachers of Gita and Arjuna himself forgot it.

Voice of Soul · Answer

God created materialistic nature..... in pairs. For instance... "Body and Soul".
Body ---> pain, darkness, illusions, lust, greed..... 
Soul -----> unconditional love, peace, truth, patience....and eternal happiness in God consciousness.

Certainly... we spiritual souls, are in Human body and it is our own choice that what do we want to choose........ "attributes of body" or "attributes of soul".

Anonymous · Answer

Yeah....you lost me at Bagdad or whatever

? · Answer

yeah

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