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Instructions for Civilized Human Beings
253
If one has no connection with Nitāi, Balarāma, then even though one is a very learned scholar or  jñānī  or has taken birth in a very respectable family, these assets will not help him. We must therefore conquer the enemies of Kṛṣṇa consciousness with the strength received from Balarāma.
TEXT 46
नोचेत् प्रमत्तमसदिन्द्रियवाजिष्ठता
नीत्वोत्पथं विषयदस्युषु निश्चिपन्ति।
ते दस्यवः सहयष्ठतममुं तमोऽन्धे
संसारकूप उरुमृत्युभये श्विपन्ति ॥४६॥
nocet pramattam asad-indriya-vāji-sūtā nītvotpatham viṣaya-dasyuṣu nikṣipanti te dasyavaḥ sahaya-sūtam amum tamo 'ndhe saṁsāra-kūpa uru-mṛtyu-bhaye kṣipanti
nocet —if we do not follow the instructions of Acyuta, Kṛṣṇa, and do not take shelter of Balarāma;  pramattam —careless, inattentive;  asat —which are always prone to material consciousness;  indriya —the senses;  vāji —acting as the horses;  sūtāḥ —the chariot driver (intelligence);  nītvā —bringing;  utpatham —to the roadway of material desire;  viṣaya —the sense objects;  dasyuṣu —in the hands of the plunderers;  nikṣipanti —throw;  te —those;  dasyavaḥ —plunderers;  sa —with;  haya-sūtam —the horses and chariot driver;  amum —all of them;  tamaḥ —dark;  andhe —blind;  saṁsāra-kūpe —into the well of material existence;  uru —great;  mṛtyu-bhaye —fear of death;  kṣipanti —throw.
TRANSLATION
Otherwise, if one does not take shelter of Acyuta and Baladeva, then the senses, acting as the horses, and the intelligence, acting as the driver, both being prone to material contamination, inattentively bring the body, which acts as the chariot, to the path of sense gratification. When one is thus attracted again by the rogues of  viṣaya —eating, sleeping and mating—the horses and chariot