Text Two
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TRANSLATION
One’s devotional service is spoiled when he becomes too entangled in the following six activities: (1) eating more than necessary or collecting more funds than required; (2) overendeavoring for mundane things that are very difficult to obtain; (3) talking unnecessarily about mundane subject matters; (4) practicing the scriptural rules and regulations only for the sake of following them and not for the sake of spiritual advancement, or rejecting the rules and regulations of the scriptures and working independently or whimsically; (5) associating with worldly-minded persons who are not interested in Krṣṇa consciousness; and (6) being greedy for mundane achievements.
PURPORT
Human life is meant for plain living and high thinking. Since all conditioned living beings are under the control of the Lord’s third energy, this material world is designed so that one is obliged to work. The Supreme Personality of Godhead has three primary energies, or potencies. The first is called  antaranga-śakti , or the internal potency. The second is called  taṭastha-śakti , or the marginal potency. The third is called  bahiranga-śakti , or the external potency. The living entities constitute the marginal potency, and they are situated between the internal and external potencies. Being subordinate as eternal servants of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the  jīvātmās , or atomic living entities, must remain under the control of either the internal or external potency. When they are under the control of the internal