Text 27] What Prahlāda Learned in the Womb
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yena mām upayānti te).  When devotional service develops and one's intelligence becomes clear, one can use his intelligence to return home, back to Godhead.
TEXT 27
एतद्दारो हि संसारो गुणकर्मनिबन्धनः । अज्ञानमूलोऽपार्थोऽपि पुंसः स्वम इवार्ष्यते ॥२७॥
etad dvāro hi saṁsāro guṇa-karma-nibandhanaḥ ajñāna-mūlo 'pārtho 'pi puṁsaḥ svapna ivārpyate
etat —this;  dvāraḥ —whose door;  hi —indeed;  saṁsāraḥ —material existence, in which one suffers threefold miseries;  guṇa-karma-nibandhanaḥ —captivation by the three modes of material nature;  ajñāna-mūlaḥ —whose root is ignorance;  apārthaḥ —without factual meaning;  api —even;  puṁsaḥ —of the living entity;  svapnaḥ —a dream;  iva —like;  arpyate —is placed.
TRANSLATION
Through polluted intelligence one is subjected to the modes of nature, and thus one is conditioned by material existence. Like a dreaming state in which one falsely suffers, material existence, which is due to ignorance, must be considered unwanted and temporary.
PURPORT
The unwanted condition of temporary life is called ignorance. One can very easily understand that the material body is temporary, for it is generated at a certain date and ends at a certain date, after undergoing the six kinds of change, namely birth, death, growth, maintenance, transformation and dwindling. This condition of the eternal soul is due to his ignorance, and although it is temporary, it is unwanted. Because of ignorance one is put into temporary bodies one after another. The spirit soul, however, does not need to enter such temporary bodies. He does so