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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 11]
PURPORT
When one's mind is absorbed in the material conception, he thinks that he belongs to a particular nation, family, country or creed. These are all called  upādhis , designations, and one has to become freed from them ( sarvopādhi-vinirmuktam ). As long as one is not freed, he has to continue conditioned life in material existence. The human form of life is meant for cleansing away these misconceptions. If this is not done, one has to repeat the cycle of birth and death and thus suffer all material conditions.
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न यावदेतन्मन आत्मलिङ्गं 
संसारतापावपनं जनस्य । 
यच्छोकमोहामयरागलोभ- 
वैरानुबन्धं ममतां विधत्ते ॥१६॥
na yāvad etan mana ātma-liṅgam 
saṁsāra-tāpāvapanam janasya 
yac choka-mohāmaya-rāga-lobha- 
vairānubandham mamatāṁ vidhatte
na —not;  yāvat —as long as;  etat —this;  manaḥ —mind;  ātma-liṅgam —existing as the false designation of the soul;  saṁsāra-tāpa —of the miseries of this material world;  āvapanam —the growing ground;  janasya —of the living being;  yat —which;  śoka —of lamentation;  moha —of illusion;  āmaya —of disease;  rāga —of attachment;  lobha —of greed;  vaira —of enmity;  anubandham —the consequence;  mamatām —the sense of ownership;  vidhatte —gives.
TRANSLATION
The soul's designation, the mind, is the cause of all tribulations in the material world. As long as this fact is unknown to the conditioned living entity, he has to accept the miserable condition of the material body and wander within this universe in different positions. Because the mind is affected by disease, lamentation, illu-