कर्माण्यारभते देही देहेनात्मानुवर्तिना । कर्मभिस्तनुते देहमुभयं त्वविवेकत: ॥ ४७ ॥
karmany arabhate dehi dehenatmanuvartina karmabhis tanute deham ubhayam tv avivekatah
- karmani
- material fruitive activities
- arabhate
- begins
- dehi
- a living entity who has accepted a particular type of body
- dehena
- with that body
- atma-anuvartina
- which is received according to his desire and past activities
- karmabhih
- by such material activities
- tanute
- he expands
- deham
- another body
- ubhayam
- both of them
- tu
- indeed
- avivekatah
- due to ignorance.
The living entity, who has received his present body because of his past fruitive activity, may end the results of his actions in this life, but this does not mean that he is liberated from bondage to material bodies. The living entity receives one type of body, and by performing actions with that body he creates another. Thus he transmigrates from one body to another, through repeated birth and death, because of his gross ignorance.