Text 14] Pṛthu Mahārāja's Meeting with the Four Kumāras
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persons whose only aim is to satisfy the senses. They are also described as  patitānām , or fallen. Only one who stops all activities for sense gratification is considered to be elevated. Another significant word is  sva-karmabhiḥ . One becomes fallen by dint of his own past bad activities. Everyone is responsible for his fallen condition because of his own activities. When activities are changed to devotional service, one's auspicious life begins.
TEXT 14
भवत्सु कुशलप्रश्न आत्मारामेषु नेष्यते । कुशलाकुशला यत्र न सन्ति मतिष्ठत्तयः ॥१४॥
bhavatsu kuśala-praśna ātmārāmeṣu neṣyate kuśalākuśalā yatra na santi mati-vṛttayaḥ
bhavatsu—unto you; kuśala—good fortune; praśnaḥ—question; ātmā-rāmeṣu—one who is always engaged in spiritual bliss; neṣyate—there is no need of; kuśala—good fortune; akuśalāḥ—inauspiciousness; yatra—where; na—never; santi—exists; mati-vṛttayaḥ—mental concoction.
TRANSLATION
Pṛthu Mahārāja continued: My dear sirs, there is no need to ask about your good and bad fortune because you are always absorbed in spiritual bliss. The mental concoction of the auspicious and inauspicious does not exist in you.
PURPORT
In the  Caitanya-caritāmṛta  it is said:
‘dvaite’  bhadrābhadra-jñāna, saba—‘manodharma’  ‘ei  bhāla, ei manda,—ei saba ‘bhrama.’
(Cc. Antya 4.176)
In this material world the auspicious and inauspicious are simply mental concoctions because such things exist only due to association with the material world. This is called illusion or  ātma-māyā . We think ourselves created by material nature exactly as we think ourselves experiencing so many things in a dream. The spirit soul is, however, always transcendental. There is no question of becoming materially covered. This covering is simply something like a hallucination or a dream. In  Bhagavad-gītā  it is also said,  saṅgāt sañjāyate kāmaḥ  (Bg. 2.62). Simply by association we create