13.1 In the Samvat year 1876, on Mãgshar vad 1 [2nd December, 1819], Shreeji Mahãrãj was sitting on a decorated bedstead under the neem tree near the mandir of Shree Vãsudev-Nãrãyan, in Dãdã Khãchar’s darbãr in Gadhadã. He was wearing a red survãl and a red dagli. He had tied a golden shelu around His head, and another golden shelu was tied around His waist. Pearl necklaces hung around His neck, and tassels of pearls were dangling from His pãgh. A sabhã of munis, as well as haribhaktas from various places, had gathered before Him.
13.2 Then, Nityãnand Swãmi asked, “Within each body, is there only one jeev, or many? If you say there is only one jeev, then when the branches of a banyan, a pipal, or other trees are cut and planted elsewhere, exactly the same type of trees grows there as well. Has that one jeev been dissected into two, or has another jeev entered the new tree? If you say it is the same jeev, then how has a jeev been divided? A jeev is said to be whole and indivisible.”
13.3 Hearing this, Shreeji Mahãrãj said, “I shall answer the question. Purush and Prakruti are the two powers of Shree Krishna Bhagvãn. He is the cause of the creation, sustenance, and destruction of this universe. Through His two powers of Purush and Prakruti, He assumed the form of Virãt. Then, during the first brãhm-kalp, Bhagvãn gave all beings, from Brahmã to the smallest blade of grass their bodies, through His own body in the form of Virãt.
13.4 “Then, during the pãdma-kalp, Bhagvãn gave Marichi and others their respective bodies, through the form of Brahmã. Then, through Kashyap and Daksh, He gave the devs, demons, humans, animals, and all the sthãvar and jangam life-forms, their bodies. That Shree Krishna Bhagvãn, along with His powers in the form of Purush and Prakruti, resides as antaryãmi in all jeevs, and grants each jeev a body according to its past karmas.
13.5 “That jeev, in its past lives, has performed many karmas – some with sattva-gun predominating, some with rajo-gun predominating, and some with tamo-gun predominating. As a consequence of those karmas, Bhagvãn grants that jeev a body of the udbhij type, or the jarãyuj type, or the svedaj type, or the andaj type. Bhagvãn also grants the jeev the rewards of its karmas in the form of happiness and misery.
13.6 “In addition, Bhagvãn makes the body of that jeev give birth to another body, according to its own karmas. Just as Bhagvãn created various life-forms from the bodies of Kashyap and the prajãpatis, that same Bhagvãn, while residing in all jeevs as antaryãmi, creates other bodies from one body by methods appropriate to that particular body. However, the jeev, through which other bodies are created, does not itself multiply into many forms. Bhagvãn grants birth to a jeev, through the body of another jeev, according to the relation of the karmas between the two jeevs.”
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