na bhaviá¹£yasi bhÅ«tvÄ tvaá¹
putra-pautrÄdi-rÅ«pavÄn
bÄ«jÄá¹…kura-vad dehÄder
vyatirikto yathÄnalaḥ
na bhaviá¹£yasi - you will not come into being; bhÅ«tvÄ - becoming; tvam - you; putra - of children; pautra - grandchildren; Ädi - and so on; rÅ«pa-vÄn - assuming the forms; bÄ«ja - the seed; aá¹…kura - and the sprout; vat - like; deha-Ädeḥ - from the material body and its paraphernalia; vyatiriktaḥ - distinct; yathÄ - as; analaḥ - the fire (from the wood).
You will not take birth again in the form of your sons and grandsons, like a sprout taking birth from a seed and then generating a new seed. Rather, you are entirely distinct from the material body and its paraphernalia, in the same way that fire is distinct from its fuel.
Sometimes one dreams of being reborn as the son of one’s son, in the hope of perpetually remaining in the same material family. As stated in the Å›ruti-mantra, pitÄ putreṇa pitá¹›mÄn yoni-yonau: “A father has a father in his son, because he may take birth as his own grandson.†The purpose of ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam is spiritual liberation and not the foolish prolonging of the illusion of bodily identification. That is clearly stated in this verse.
