यथा वस्तूनि पण्यानि हेमादीनि ततस्तत: । पर्यटन्ति नरेष्वेवं जीवो योनिषु कर्तृषु ॥ ६ ॥
yatha vastuni panyani hemadini tatas tatah paryatanti naresv evam jivo yonisu kartrsu
- yatha
- just as
- vastuni
- commodities
- panyani
- meant for trading
- hema-adini
- such as gold
- tatah tatah
- from here to there
- paryatanti
- move about
- naresu
- among men
- evam
- in this way
- jivah
- the living entity
- yonisu
- in different species of life
- kartrsu
- in different material fathers.
Just as gold and other commodities are continually transferred from one place to another in due course of purchase and sale, so the living entity, as a result of his fruitive activities, wanders throughout the entire universe, being injected into various bodies in different species of life by one kind of father after another.