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The lord lost rucks Śrila Runa Cosvāmī.
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time of death. Unfortunately people do not know that there is life after death; therefore mundane people waste their time amassing material profit which has to be left behind at the time of death. Such profit has no eternal benefit. Similarly, adoration by mundane people is valueless because after death one has to accept another body. Material adoration and title are decorations that cannot be carried over to the next body. In the next life, everything is forgotten.
All these obstructions have been described in this verse as unwanted creepers. They simply present obstacles for the real creeper,  bhakti-latā-bīja . One should be very careful to avoid all these unwanted things. Sometimes these unwanted creepers look exactly like the  bhakti-latā  creeper. They appear to be of the same size and the same species when they are packed together with the  bhakti-latā  creeper, but in spite of this, the creepers are called  upaśākhā . A pure devotee can distinguish between the  bhakti-latā  creeper and a mundane creeper, and he is very alert to distinguish them and keep them separate.
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সেকজল পাঞা উপশাখা বাড়ি’  যায়। 
 শুক্ক হঞা মুলশাখা বাড়িতে না পায় ॥ ১৬۰ ॥
seka-jala pāñā upaśākhā bāḍi' yāya stabdha hañā mūla-śākhā bāḍite nā pāya
SYNONYMS
seka-jala —sprinkling water;  pāñā —getting;  upaśākhā —the unwanted creepers;  bāḍi’ yāya —grow luxuriantly;  stabdha hañā —becoming stopped;  mūla-śākhā —the chief creeper;  bāḍite —to increase;  nā pāya —is not able.
TRANSLATION
“If one does not distinguish between the bhakti-latā creeper and the other creepers, the sprinkling of water is misused because the other creepers are nourished while the bhakti-latā creeper is curtailed.
PURPORT
If one chants the Hare Krṣṇa  mantra  while committing offenses, these unwanted creepers will grow. One should not take advantage of chanting the Hare Krṣṇa  mantra  for some material profit. As mentioned in verse 159:
‘nişiddhācāra’, ‘kuṭīnāṭī’, ‘jīva-hiṁsana’ ‘lābha’, ‘pūjā’, ‘pratiṣṭhādi’ yata upaśākhā-gaṇa