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Read one verse of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam with its Sanskrit, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 3.27.18
यथा गन्धस्य भूमेश्च न भावो व्यतिरेकत: ।
अपां रसस्य च यथा तथा बुद्धे: परस्य च ॥ १८ ॥
yathā gandhasya bhūmeś ca
na bhāvo vyatirekataḥ
apāṁ rasasya ca yathā
tathā buddheḥ parasya ca
As there is no separate existence of the earth and its aroma or of water and its taste, there cannot be any separate existence of intelligence and consciousness.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Earth and its aroma are presented as inseparable. The purport explains that without aroma, the matter cannot be identified.
Water without taste and fire without heat have no meaning in these examples. Their qualities are essential to how we recognize them.
The same reasoning is applied to intelligence and consciousness. The purport states that when intelligence is absent, spirit has no meaning.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Entanglement → Insight and liberation. Inquiry matures into instruction in devotion and spiritual nature.
Chapters 25–33 of Canto 3: Kapila instructs Devahūti. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc
Kapila explains how hearing, chanting, knowledge, and devotional service free the soul from material nature.
Back to this verse in chapter 3.27Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.
The subject this verse serves and the themes it speaks of.
Mukti · Liberation
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Chapter themes come from the story phase this chapter belongs to.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How do these examples help me understand the proposed relationship between intelligence and consciousness?
Read the earth-and-aroma and water-and-taste comparisons slowly, then restate their connection to intelligence and consciousness in your own words.
The story this chapter belongs to.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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