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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 5]
The cause of such gross ignorance is constant engagement by the materialistic man in the matter of artificially increasing material demands of life. To realize the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one has to purify the materialistic senses by devotional service. The mode of goodness, or the brahminical culture recommended in the Vedic literatures, is helpful to such spiritual realization, and thus the  jñāna-śakti  stage of the conditioned soul is comparatively better than the other two stages, namely  dravya-śakti  and  kriyā-śakti . The whole material civilization is manifested by a huge accumulation of materials, or, in other words, raw materials for industrial purposes, and the industrial enterprises ( kriyā-śakti ) are all due to gross ignorance of spiritual life. In order to rectify this great anomaly of materialistic civilization, based on the principles of  dravya-śakti  and  kriyā-śakti , one has to adopt the process of devotional service of the Lord by adoption of the principles of  karma-yoga , mentioned in the  Bhagavad-gītā  as follows:
yat karoṣi yad aśnāsi yaj juhoṣi dadāsi yat 
    yat tapasyasi kaunteya tat kuruṣva mad arpaṇam.  
    (Bg. 9.27)
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तामसादपि भूतादेर्विकुर्वाणादभून्नमः।  
 तस्य मात्रागुणः शब्दो लिङ्गं यद् द्रष्टृदृश्ययोः ॥२५॥
tāmasād api bhūtāder 
    vikurvāṇād abhūn nabhaḥ 
    tasya mātrā guṇaḥ śabdo 
    liṅgaṁ yad draṣṭṛ-dṛśyayoḥ
tāmasāt —from the darkness of false ego;  api —certainly;  bhūta-ādeḥ —of the material elements;  vikurvāṇāt —because of transformation;  abhūt —generated;  nabhaḥ —the sky;  tasya —its;  mātrā —subtle form;  guṇaḥ —quality;  śabdaḥ —sound;  liṅgaṁ —characteristics;  yat —as its;  draṣṭṛ —the seer;  dṛśyayoḥ —of what is seen.
TRANSLATION
From the darkness of false ego, the first of the five elements, namely