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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 27]
TEXT 4
शयान उन्नद्धमदो महामना 
  महार्हतल्पे महिषोभुजोपधिः । 
  तामेव वीरो मनुते परं यत- 
  स्तमोऽमिभूतो न निजं परं च यत् ॥ ४ ॥
śayāna unnaddha-mado mahā-manā 
  mahārha-talpe mahiṣī-bhujopadhiḥ 
  tām eva vīro manute param yatas 
  tamo-'bhibhūto na nijam param ca yat
śayānaḥ—lying down; unnaddha-madaḥ—increasingly illusioned; mahā-manāḥ—advanced in consciousness; mahā-arha-talpe—on a valuable bedstead; mahiṣī—of the Queen; bhuja—arms; upadhiḥ—pillow; tām—her; eva—certainly; vīraḥ—the hero; manute—he considered; param—the goal of life; yataḥ—from which; tamaḥ—by ignorance; abhibhūtaḥ—overwhelmed; na—not; nijam—his actual self; param—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; ca—and; yat—what.
TRANSLATION
In this way, increasingly overwhelmed by illusion, King Purañjana, although advanced in consciousness, remained always lying down with his head on the pillow of his wife's arms. In this way he considered woman to be his ultimate life and soul. Becoming thus overwhelmed by the mode of ignorance, he could not understand the meaning of self-realization, of his self, or of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
PURPORT
Human life is meant for self-realization. First of all one has to realize his own self, which is described in this verse as  nijam . Then he has to understand or realize the Supersoul or Paramātmā, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. However, when one becomes too much materially attached, he takes a woman to be everything. This is the basic principle of material attachment. In such a condition, one cannot realize his own self or the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  it is therefore said:  mahatsevām dvāram āhur vimuktes tamo-dvāram yoṣitām saṅgi-saṅgam  ( Bhāg.  5.5.2). If one associates with  mahātmās , or devotees, his path of liberation