Text 48]
Matsya, the Lord's Fish Incarnation
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the unclean mentality (accepting the body as the self);  granthim —hard knot;  sah —His Lordship the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  bhindyāt —being cut off;  hṛdayam —in the core of the heart;  sah —He (the Lord);  nah —our;  guruh —the supreme spiritual master.
TRANSLATION
In hopes of becoming happy in this material world, the foolish conditioned soul performs fruitive activities that result only in suffering. But by rendering service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one becomes free from such false desires for happiness. May my supreme spiritual master cut the knot of false desires from the core of my heart.
PURPORT
For material happiness, the conditioned soul involves himself in fruitive activities, which actually put him into material distress. Because the conditioned soul does not know this, he is said to be in  avidyā , or ignorance. Because of a false hope for happiness, the conditioned soul becomes involved in various plans for material activity. Here Mahārāja Satyavrata prays that the Lord sever this hard knot of false happiness and thus become his supreme spiritual master.
TEXT 48
यत्सेवयाग्रेरिव रुद्ररोदनं 
  पुमान् विजह्यान्मलमात्मनस्तमः । 
  भजेत वर्णं निजमेष सोऽव्ययो 
  भूयात् स ईशः परमो गुरोर्गुरुः ॥४८॥
yat-sevayāgner iva rudra-rodanam 
  pumān vijahyān malam ātmanas tamah 
  bhajeta varṇam nijam eṣa so 'vyayo 
  bhūyāt sa īśah paramo guror guruh
yat-sevayā —the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by serving whom;  agneh —in touch with fire;  iva —as it is;  rudra-rodanam —a block of