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Svāyambhuva Manu Advises Dhruva Mahārāja
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ties remain in the material sphere. But persons who engage in devotional service reach the abode of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, where there is neither birth nor death nor different varieties of life under the influence of the law of  karma . The best interest of the living entity is to engage himself in devotional service and go back home, back to Godhead. Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Thākura advised: "My friend, you are being washed away in material nature's waves of time. Please try to understand that you are the eternal servant of the Lord. Then everything will stop, and you will be eternally happy."
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केचित्कर्म वदन्त्येनं स्वमावमपरे नृप । एके कालं परे देवं पुंसः कामप्रुतापरे ॥२२॥
kecit karma vadanty enam   svabhāvam apare nṛpa   eke kālam pare daivam   puṁsaḥ kāmam utāpare
kecit —some;  karma —fruitive activities;  vadanti —explain;  enam —that;  svabhāvam —nature;  apare —others;  nṛpa —my dear King Dhruva;  eke —some;  kālam —time;  pare —others;  daivam —fate;  puṁsaḥ —of the living entity;  kāmam —desire;  uta —also;  apare —others.
TRANSLATION
The differentiation among varieties of life and their suffering and enjoyment is explained by some to be the result of  karma . Others say it is due to nature, others due to time, others due to fate, and still others say that it is due to desire.
PURPORT
There are different types of philosophers— mīmāṁsakas , atheists, astronomers, sexualists and so many other classifications of mental speculators. The real conclusion is that it is our work only that binds us within this material world in different varieties of life. How these varieties have sprung up is explained in the  Vedas : it is due to the desire of the living entity. The living entity is not a dead stone; he has different varieties of desire, or  kāma . The  Vedas  say,  kāmo 'kārṣīt . The living entities are originally parts of the Lord, like sparks of a fire, but they have dropped to this material world, attracted by a desire to lord it over nature. That is a fact. Every