Samudrena Phena Yena
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samudrena phenā yena kṣaṇe ṣṛṣti kṣaṇe laya
māyāra saṁsāre khelā seibhāve haya
samudrena-of the ocean; phenā-foam; yena-like; kṣaṇe-momentarily; ṣṛṣti–created; kṣaṇe–in one movement; laya–destroyed; mayara–illusory; saṁsāre–material world; khelā–play; seibhāve–like; haya–is.
Ocean foam is created in an instant by the action of the waves. Just as abruptly the foam is also disintegrated after a momentary existence. The “game” of illusory material family life and its affairs is like that, suddenly beginning and then terminating after a short existence.
keha nahe pitā-mātā ātmiya-svajana
sabāi phenāra mato thāke alpakṣaṇa
keha nahe–no one is; pitā-mātā–father or mother; ātmīya-svajana–relative; sabāi–all; phenāra mato–like the foam; thāke-remain; alpakṣaṇa-a short time.
In truth, no one can actually be said to be a “father,” “mother,” “relative,” or dear “friend,” since everyone remains, as do the bubbles of foam in the ocean, for just a very short period of time.
samudrera phenā yemana samudre miśaya
pañchabhūtera deha tathā haye yāya laya
samudrera-of the ocean; phenā-form; yemana-just as; samudre-in the ocean; miśaya-mixes; pañchabhūtera-made of five material elements; deha-body; tathā-in the same way; haye-being; yāya-goes; laya-destruction.
As a ocean foam finally merges back into the ocean water from where it came, similarly material bodies, which are temporary products of the material energy made of the five gross material elements (earth, water, fire, air, and sky), are also eventually destroyed by the actions of the material energy, and finally the elements of the dead body merge again with the total material elements. The temporary material body is certainly not the real person, nor even alive.
kata deha eibhāve dharaye śarīrī
anitya śarīre mātra ātmiya tāhāri
kata-many; deha-bodies; eibhāve-in this way; dharaye-accepts; śarīrī-the possessor of the body, the soul; anitya-impermenant; śarīre-in the body; mātra-only; ātmīya-bodily relations; tāhāri-his.
There is a living spiritual force present in the body that is not the body, but which makes each body “alive”. That living force is the real self, the eternal spirit soul, which for the short period of one life temporarily possesses a particular material body, then leaves that body at “death” and enters into a new body and is born again, repeating
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Who wrote Samudrena Phena Yena?
Samudrena Phena Yena was composed by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. It appears in Vrindavane Bhajan.
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Samudrena Phena Yena has 4 verses.