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Lord Rṣabhadeva's Teachings
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ciating with devotees. He should not become further implicated in the material body.
TEXT 5
परामवस्तावदबोधजातो
यावन्न जिज्ञासत अत्मतत्त्वम् ।
यावत्क्रियास्तावदिदं मनो वै
कर्मात्मकं येन शरीरग्रन्थः ॥ ५ ॥
parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto
yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam
yāvat kriyās tāvad idam mano vai
karmātmakam yena śarīra-bandhaḥ
parābhavaḥ —defeat, misery;  tāvat —so long;  abodha-jātaḥ —produced from ignorance;  yāvat —as long as;  na —not;  jijñāsate —inquires about;  ātma-tattvam —the truth of the self;  yāvat —as long as;  kriyāḥ —fruitive activities;  tāvat —so long;  idam —this;  manaḥ —mind;  vai —indeed;  karma-ātmakam —absorbed in material activities;  yena —by which;  śarīra-bandhaḥ —bondage in this material body.
TRANSLATION
As long as one does not inquire about the spiritual values of life, one is defeated and subjected to miseries arising from ignorance. Be it sinful or pious, karma has its resultant actions. If a person is engaged in any kind of karma, his mind is called karmātmaka, colored with fruitive activity. As long as the mind is impure, consciousness is unclear, and as long as one is absorbed in fruitive activity, he has to accept a material body.
PURPORT
Generally people think that one should act very piously in order to be relieved from misery, but this is not a fact. Even though one engages in pious activity and speculation, he is nonetheless defeated. His only aim should be emancipation from the clutches of  māyā  and all material