न भविष्यसि भूत्वा त्वं पुत्रपौत्रादिरूपवान् । बीजाङ्कुरवद् देहादेर्व्यतिरिक्तो यथानल: ॥ ३ ॥
na bhaviṣyasi bhūtvā tvaṁ putra-pautrādi-rūpavān bījāṅkura-vad dehāder vyatirikto yathānalaḥ
- na bhaviṣyasi
- you will not come into being
- bhūtvā
- becoming
- tvam
- you
- putra
- of children
- pautra
- grandchildren
- ādi
- and so on
- rūpa-vān
- assuming the forms
- bīja
- the seed
- aṅkura
- and the sprout
- vat
- like
- deha-ādeḥ
- from the material body and its paraphernalia
- vyatiriktaḥ
- distinct
- yathā
- 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.