Text 21] Prahlāda Pacifies the Lord with Prayers
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When one gives up materially designated positions and works directly under the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one's spiritual life is revived. This is described as  svarūpena avasthiti , being situated in one's original constitutional position. This is the real description of  mukti , or liberation from material bondage.
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माया मनः सृजति कर्ममयं बलीयः
कालेन चोदितगुणानुमतेन पुंसः ।
छन्दोमयं यदजयार्पितषोडशारं
संसारचक्रमज कोऽतितरेत् त्वदन्यः ॥२१॥
māyā manaḥ srjati karmamayam balīyaḥ kālena codita-guṇānumatena puṁsaḥ chandomayam yad ajayārpita-ṣoḍaśāraṁ saṁsāra-cakram aja ko 'titaret tvad-anyaḥ
māyā —the external energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  manaḥ —the mind;*  srjati —creates;  karma-mayam —producing hundreds and thousands of desires and acting accordingly;  balīyaḥ —extremely powerful, insurmountable;  kālena —by time;  codita-guṇa —whose three modes of material nature are agitated;  anumatena —permitted by the mercy of the glance (time);  puṁsaḥ —of the plenary portion, Lord Viṣṇu, the expansion of Lord Kṛṣṇa;  chandaḥ-mayam —chiefly influenced by the directions in the  Vedas ;  yat —which;  ajayā —because of dark ignorance;  arpita —offered;  ṣoḍaśa —sixteen;  aram —the spokes;  saṁsāra-cakram —the wheel of repeated birth and death in different species of life;  aja —O unborn Lord;  kaḥ —who (is there);  atitaret —able to get out;  tvat-anyaḥ —without taking shelter at Your lotus feet.
*The mind is always planning how to remain in the material world and struggle for existence. It is the chief part of the subtle body, which consists of the mind, intelligence and false ego.