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Bhaja Govindam
भज गोविन्दम्
Chant
यावत्पवनो निवसति देहे तावत्पृच्छति कुशलं गेहे । गतवति वायौ देहापाये भार्या बिभ्यति तस्मिन्काये ॥६॥
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Word breakdown
- यावत्पवनो निवसति देहे
- As long as breath dwells in the body,
- तावत्पृच्छति कुशलं गेहे ।
- people at home inquire after one's welfare.
- गतवति वायौ देहापाये
- When the breath departs and the body falls,
- भार्या बिभ्यति तस्मिन्काये ॥६॥
- even the wife fears that very body.
The departing life-breath reveals the difference between a living person and a body treated as an object. What the world loved was the presence of consciousness, not the corpse left behind.
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