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Bhagavad-ച്ച്‌ As  It ls
[Ch. 15]
surrender. For one who is always expecting some honor in this material world, it is not possible to surrender to the Supreme Person. Pride is due to illusion, for although one comes here, stays for a brief time and then goes away, he has the foolish notion that he is the lord of the world. He thus makes all things complicated, and he is always in trouble. The whole world moves under this impression. People are considering that the land, this earth, belongs to human society, and they have divided the land under the false impression that they are the proprietors. One has to get out of this false notion that human society is the proprietor of this world. When one is freed from such a false notion, he becomes free from all the false associations caused by familial, social, and national affections. These fake associations bind one to this material world. After this stage, one has to develop spiritual knowledge. One has to cultivate knowledge of what is actually his own and what is actually not his own. And, when one has an understanding of things as they are, he becomes free from all dual conceptions such as happiness and distress, pleasure and pain. He becomes full in knowledge; then it is possible for him to surrender to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TEXT 6
न तद्भासयत सूर्यो न शशाङ्को न पावकः । यद्गत्वा न निवर्तन्ते तद्धाम परमं मम ॥ ६ ॥
na tad bhāsayate sūryo  
 na śaśāṅko na pāvakaḥ  
 yad gatvā na nivartante  
 tad dhāma paramaṁ mama
na —not;  -tat —that;  bhāsayate —illuminates;  sūryaḥ —sun;  na —nor;  śaśāṅkaḥ —the moon; na —nor; pāvakaḥ —fire, electricity;  yat —where;  gatvā —going;  na —never;  nivartante —comes back;  tat dhāma —that abode;  paramam —supreme;  mama —My.
TRANSLATION
That abode of Mine is not illumined by the sun or moon, nor by electricity. One who reaches it never returns to this material world.