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Instructions for Civilized Human Beings
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conscious person can understand that performing  yajña  according to the  karma-kāṇḍa  system is a useless waste of time and that merely giving up the  karma-kāṇḍa  and accepting the process of speculation is also unfruitful. Therefore Narottama dāsa Thākura has sung in his  Prema-bhakti-candrikā :
karma-kāṇḍa, jñāna-kāṇḍa, kevala viṣera bhāṇḍa ‘amṛta’ baliyā yebā khāya nānā yoni sadā phire, kadarya bhakṣaṇa kare, tāra janma adhaḥ-pāte yāya
A life of  karma-kāṇḍa  or  jñāna-kāṇḍa  is like a poison pot, and one who takes to such a life is doomed. In the  karma-kāṇḍa  system, one is destined to accept birth and death again and again. Similarly, with  jñāna-kāṇḍa  one falls down again to this material world. Only worship of the Supreme Person offers one the safety of going back home, back to God-head.
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हन्द्रयाणि मनस्यूर्मो वाचि वैकारिकं मनः । वाचं वर्णसमाम्नाये तमोङ्कारे स्वरे न्यसेत् । ओङ्कारं बिन्दौ नादे तं तं तु प्राणे महत्यमुम् ॥५३॥
indriyāṇi manasy ūrmau vāci vaikārikam manaḥ vācam varṇa-samāmnāye tam oṁkāre svare nyaset oṁkāraṁ bindau nāde taṁ taṁ tu prāṇe mahaty amum
indriyāṇi —the senses (acting and knowledge-gathering);  manasi —in the mind;  ūrmau —in the waves of acceptance and rejection;  vāci —in the words;  vaikārikam —infected by changes;  manaḥ —the mind;  vācam —the words;  varṇa-samāmnāye —in the aggregate of all alphabets;  tam —that (aggregate of all alphabets);  oṁkāre —in the concise form of  oṁkāra ;  svare —in the vibration;  nyaset —one should give