Text 6]
Lord Rṣabhadeva's Teachings
173
प्रीतिर्न यावन्मयि वासुदेवे न मुन्यते देहयोगेन तावत् ॥ ६ ॥
evam manaḥ karma-vaśam prayuṅkte avidyayātmany upadhīyamāne prītir na yāvan mayi vāsudeve na mucyate deha-yogena tāvat
evam —thus;  manaḥ —the mind;  karma-vaśam —subjugated by fruitive activities;  prayuṅkte —acts;  avidyayā —by ignorance;  ātmani —when the living entity;  upadhīyamāne —is covered;  prītiḥ —love;  na —not;  yāvat —as long as;  mayi —unto Me;  vāsudeve —Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa:  na —not;  mucyate —is delivered;  deha-yogena —from contact with the material body;  tāvat —so long.
TRANSLATION
When the living entity is covered by the mode of ignorance, he does not understand the individual living being and the supreme living being, and his mind is subjugated to fruitive activity. Therefore, until one has love for Lord Vāsudeva, who is none other than Myself, he is certainly not delivered from having to accept a material body again and again.
PURPORT
When the mind is polluted by fruitive activity, the living entity wants to be elevated from one material position to another. Generally everyone is involved in working hard day and night to improve his economic condition. Even when one understands the Vedic rituals, he becomes interested in promotion to heavenly planets, not knowing that one's real interest lies in returning home, back to Godhead. By acting on the platform of fruitive activity, one wanders throughout the universe in different species and forms. Unless he comes in contact with a devotee of the Lord, a  guru , he does not become attached to the service of Lord Vāsudeva. Knowledge of Vāsudeva requires many births to understand. As confirmed in  Bhagavad-gītā  (7.19):  vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti sa mahāt-mā sudurlabhaḥ . After struggling for existence for many births, one