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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 27]
PURPORT
The conditioned souls are eager to identify with the body and consider that the body is “myself” and that anything in relationship with the body or possessions of the body is “mine.” In Sanskrit this is called  aham mamatā , and it is the root cause of all conditional life. A person should see things as the combination of matter and spirit. He should distinguish between the nature of matter and the nature of spirit, and his real identification should be with spirit, not with matter. By this knowledge one should avoid the false bodily concept of life.
TEXT 10
निवृत्तबुद्ध्यवस्थानो दूरीभूतान्यदर्शनः । उपलभ्यात्मनाऽऽत्मानं चक्षुषेवाक्रमात्मदृक् ॥१०॥
nivṛtta-buddhy-avasthāno dūrībhūtānya-darśanaḥ upalabhyātmanātmānaṁ cakṣuṣevārkam ātma-dṛk
nivṛtta—transcended; buddhi-avasthānaḥ—the stages of material consciousness; dūrībhūta—far off; anya—other; darśanaḥ—conceptions of life; upalabhya—having realized; ātmanā—by his purified intellect; ātmānam—his own self; cakṣuṣā—with his eyes; iva—as; arkam—the sun; ātma-dṛk—the self-realized.
TRANSLATION
One should be situated in the transcendental position, beyond the stages of material consciousness, and should be aloof from all other conceptions of life. Thus realizing freedom from false ego, one should see his own self just as he sees the sun in the sky.
PURPORT
Consciousness acts in three stages under the material conception of life. When we are awake, consciousness acts in a particular way, when we are asleep it acts in a different way, and when we are in deep sleep, consciousness acts in still another way. To become Kṛṣṇa conscious, one has to become transcendental to these three stages of consciousness. Our present consciousness should be freed from all perceptions of life other