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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 1]
of the human being after showing the actual position of bewildered human activities. Persons who are devoid of the knowledge of  ātma-tattva  are misguided, but those who are devotees of the Lord and have perfect realization of transcendental knowledge are not bewildered.
TEXT 5
तस्माद्धारत सर्वात्मा भगवानीश्वरो हरिः । 
    श्रोतव्यः कीर्तितव्यश्च सर्तव्यश्चेच्छताभयम् ॥ ५ ॥
tasmād bhārata sarvātmā 
    bhagavān īśvaro hariḥ 
    śrotavyaḥ kīrtitavyaś ca 
    smartavyaś cecchatābhayam
tasmāt —for this reason;  bhārata —O descendant of Bharata;  sarvātmā —the Supersoul;  bhagavān —the Personality of Godhead;  īśvaraḥ —the controller;  hariḥ —the Lord who vanquishes all miseries;  śrotavyaḥ —is to be heard;  kīrtitavyaḥ —to be glorified;  ca —also;  smartavyaḥ —to be remembered;  ca —and;  icchatā —of one who desires;  abhayam —freedom.
TRANSLATION
O descendant of King Bharata, one who desires to be free from all miseries must hear, glorify and also remember the Personality of Godhead, who is the Supersoul, the controller and the savior from all miseries.
PURPORT
In the previous verse, Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī has described how the foolish materially-attached men are wasting their valuable time in the improvement of the material conditions of life by sleeping, indulging in sex life, developing economic conditions and maintaining a band of relatives who are to be vanquished in the air of oblivion. Being engaged in all these materialistic activities, the living soul entangles himself in the cycle of the law of fruitive actions. This entails the chain of birth and death in the 8,400,000 species of life: the aquatics, the vegetables, the reptiles, the birds, the beasts, the uncivilized man, and then again the human form,