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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 5]
śrī-śukaḥ uvāca—Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said;  tat —that;  niśamya —hearing;  atha —thereafter;  haryaśvāḥ —all the sons of Prajāpati Dakṣa;  autpattika —naturally awakened;  manīṣayā —by possessing the power to consider;  vācaḥ —of the speech;  kūṭam —the enigma;  tu —but;  devarṣeḥ —of Nārada Muni;  svayam —themselves;  vimamṛśuḥ —reflected upon;  dhiyā —with full intelligence.
TRANSLATION
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Hearing these enigmatic words of Nārada Muni, the Haryaśvas considered them with their natural intelligence, without help from others.
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मूः क्षेत्रं जीवसंज्ञं यदनादि निजबन्धनम् । अदृष्ट्वा तस्य निर्वाणं किमसत्कर्ममिर्भवेत् ॥११॥
bhūḥ kṣetram jīva-samjñam yad anādi nija-bandhanam adṛṣṭvā tasya nirvāṇam kim asat-karmabhir bhavet
bhūḥ —the earth;  kṣetram —the field of activities;  jīva-samjñam —the designation of the spiritual living being who is bound by different results of activity;  yat —which;  anādi —existing since time immemorial;  nija-bandhanam —causing his own bondage;  adṛṣṭvā —without seeing;  tasya —of this;  nirvāṇam —the cessation;  kim —what benefit;  asat-karmabhiḥ —with temporary fruitive activities;  bhavet —there can be.
TRANSLATION
[The Haryaśvas understood the meaning of Nārada's words as follows.] The word “bhūḥ” [“the earth”] refers to the field of activities. The material body, which is a result of the living being's actions, is his field of activities, and it gives him false designations. Since time immemorial, he has received various types of material bodies, which are the roots of bondage to the material world. If