घटे भिन्ने घटाकाश आकाश: स्याद् यथा पुरा । एवं देहे मृते जीवो ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते पुन: ॥ ५ ॥
ghaṭe bhinne ghaṭākāśa ākāśaḥ syād yathā purā evaṁ dehe mṛte jīvo brahma sampadyate punaḥ
- ghaṭe
- a pot
- bhinne
- when it is broken
- ghaṭa-ākāśaḥ
- the sky within the pot
- ākāśaḥ
- sky
- syāt
- remains
- yathā
- as
- purā
- previously
- evam
- similarly
- dehe
- the body
- mṛte
- when it is given up, in the liberated condition
- jīvaḥ
- the individual soul
- brahma
- his spiritual status
- sampadyate
- attains
- punaḥ
- once again
When a pot is broken, the portion of sky within the pot remains as the element sky, just as before. In the same way, when the gross and subtle bodies die, the living entity within resumes his spiritual identity.