Text 30]
The Movements of the Living Entities
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When ignorance covers the soul, it is the source of his degradation to the most abominable condition of hellish life.
To raise oneself from hellish life to the highest position of spiritual understanding is to transform this lust into love of Kṛṣṇa. Śrī Narottama dāsa Thākura, a great  ācārya  of the Vaiṣṇava  sampradāya , said,  kāma kṛṣṇa-karmārpaṇe : due to our lust we want many things for our sense gratification, but the same lust can be transformed in a purified way so that  we want everything for the satisfaction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead . Anger also can be utilized towards a person who is atheistic or who is envious of the Personality of Godhead. As we have fallen in this material existence because of our lust and anger, the same two qualities can be utilized for the purpose of advancing in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and one can elevate himself again to his former pure spiritual position. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has therefore recommended that because in material existence we have so many objects of sense gratification, which we need for the maintenance of the body, we should use all of them without attachment, for the purpose of satisfying the senses of Kṛṣṇa; that is actual renunciation.
TEXT 30
भूतैः पञ्चमिराख्ये देहे देहाबुधोऽसकृत् । अहंममेत्यसद्ग्राहः करोति कुमतिर्मतिम् ॥३०॥
bhūtaiḥ pañcabhir ārabdhe dehe dehy abudho 'sakṛt aham mamety asad-grāhaḥ karoti kumatir matim
bhūtaiḥ—by material elements; pañcabhiḥ—five; ārabdhe—made; dehe—in the body; dehī—the living entity; abudhaḥ—ignorant; asakṛt—constantly; aham—I; mama—mine; iti—thus; asat—nonpermanent things; grāhaḥ—accepting; karoti—he does; ku-matiḥ—being foolish; matim—thought.
TRANSLATION
By such ignorance the living entity accepts the material body, which is made of five elements, as himself. With this misunderstanding, he accepts nonpermanent things as his own and increases his ignorance in the darkest region.