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The Movements of the Living Entities
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fruits and flowers which the living entity can enjoy, even in this material world. That is called the  brahma-bhūta  stage. In his designated condition, a living entity is called materialistic, and upon being freed from all designation, when he is fully Kṛṣṇa conscious, engaged in devotional service, he is called liberated. Unless one gets the opportunity to associate with a bona fide spiritual master by the grace of the Lord, there is no possibility of one's liberation from the cycle of birth and death in the different species of life and through the different grades of planets.
TEXT 44
जीवो ह्यसानुगो देहो भूतेन्द्रियमनोमयः ।
तन्निरोधोऽस्य मरणमाविर्भावस्तु सम्भवः ॥४४॥
jīvo hy asyānugo deho bhūtendriya-mano-mayaḥ tan-nirodho 'sya maraṇam āvirbhāvas tu sambhavaḥ
jīvaḥ —the living entity;  hi —indeed;  asya —of him;  anugaḥ —suitable;  dehaḥ —body;  bhūta —gross material elements;  indriya —senses;  manaḥ —mind;  mayaḥ —made of;  tat —of the body;  nirodhaḥ —destruction;  asya —of the living entity;  maraṇam —death;  āvirbhāvaḥ —manifestation;  tu —but;  sambhavaḥ —birth.
TRANSLATION
In this way the living entity gets a suitable body with a material mind and senses, according to his fruitive activities. When the reaction of his particular activity is finished, it is called death, and when a particular type of reaction begins, that is called birth.
PURPORT
From time immemorial, the living entity travels in the different species of life and the different planets, almost perpetually. This process is explained in  Bhagavad-gītā .  Bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni yantrārūḍhāni māyayā : under the spell of  māyā , everyone is wandering throughout the universe on the carriage of the body offered by the material energy. Materialistic life involves a series of actions and reactions. It is a long film spool of actions and reactions, and one life span is just a flash in such a reactionary show. When