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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 7, Ch. 15]
indriyeṣu kriyā-yajñān jñāna-dīpeṣu juhvati
niṣeka-ādi —the beginning of life (the purificatory process of  garbhādhāna , performed when the father begets a child by discharging semen into the womb of the mother);  śmaśāna-antaiḥ —and at death, when the body is put into a crematorium and burnt to ashes;  saṁskāraiḥ —by such purificatory processes;  saṁskṛtaḥ —purified;  dvijaḥ —a twiceborn  brāhmaṇa ;  indriyeṣu —into the senses;  kriyā-yajñān —activities and sacrifices (which elevate one to a higher planetary system);  jñāna-dīpeṣu —by enlightenment in real knowledge;  juhvati —offers.
TRANSLATION
A twiceborn  brāhmaṇa  [dvija] gains his life by the grace of his parents through the process of purification known as  garbhādhāna . There are also other processes of purification, until the end of life, when the funeral ceremony [ antyeṣṭi-kriyā ] is performed. Thus in due course a qualified  brāhmaṇa  becomes uninterested in materialistic activities and sacrifices, but he offers the sensual sacrifices, in full knowledge, into the working senses, which are illuminated by the fire of knowledge.
PURPORT
Those interested in materialistic activities remain in the cycle of birth and death.  Pravṛtti-mārga , or the inclination to stay in the material world to enjoy varieties of sense gratification, has been explained in the previous verse. Now, in this verse, it is explained that one who has perfect brahminical knowledge rejects the process of elevation to higher planets and accepts  nivṛtti-mārga ; in other words, he prepares himself to go back home, back to Godhead. Those who are not  brāhmaṇas  but atheists do not know what is  pravṛtti-mārga  or  nivṛtti-mārga ; they simply want to obtain pleasure at any cost. Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is therefore training devotees to give up the  pravṛtti-mārga  and accept the  nivṛtti-mārga  in order to return home, back to Godhead. This is a little difficult to understand, but it is very easy if one takes to Kṛṣṇa consciousness seriously and tries to understand Kṛṣṇa. A Kṛṣṇa