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petually and enjoy it to the best of their ability. Both of them are fools and rascals. It is advised that one observe the eternal time factor, which is the cause of the material body's appearance and disappearance, and that one observe the living entity's entanglement in this time factor. Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Thākura therefore sings in his  Gītāvalī :
anādi karama-phale, padi 'bhavārṇava-jale, taribāre nā dekhi upāya
One should observe the activities of eternal time, which is the cause of birth and death. Before the creation of the present millennium, the living entities were under the influence of the time factor, and within the time factor the material world comes into existence and is again annihilated.  Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate . Being under the control of the time factor, the living entities appear and die, life after life. This time factor is the impersonal representation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who gives the living entities conditioned by material nature a chance to emerge from this nature by surrendering to Him.
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नासञ्छास्त्रेषु सज्जेत नोपजीवेत जीविकाम् । वादवादांस्त्यजेत् तर्कन्यक्षं कं च न संश्रयेत् ॥ ७ ॥
nāsac-chāstreṣu sajjeta nopajīveta jīvikām vāda-vādāṁs tyajet tarkān pakṣaṁ kaṁca na saṁśrayet
na —not;  asat-śāstreṣu —literature like newspapers, novels, dramas and fiction;  sajjeta —one should be attached or should indulge in reading;  na —nor;  upajīveta —one should try to live;  jīvikām —upon some professional literary career;  vāda-vādāṁ —unnecessary arguments on different aspects of philosophy;  tyajet —one should give up;  tarkān —arguments and counterarguments;  pakṣaṁ —faction;  kaṁca —any;  na —not;  saṁśrayet —should take shelter of.