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The Downfall of Saubhari Muni
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fixed at the lotus feet of the unlimited Supreme Personality of Godhead;  yuñjita —one can engage himself;  tat-vratiṣu —with persons of the same category (desiring liberation from material bondage);  sādhuṣu —such saintly persons;  cet —if;  prasaṅgaḥ —one wants association.
TRANSLATION
A person desiring liberation from material bondage must give up the association of persons interested in sex life and should not employ his senses externally [in seeing, hearing, talking, walking and so on]. One should always stay in a secluded place, completely fixing his mind at the lotus feet of the unlimited Personality of Godhead, and if one wants any association at all, he should associate with persons similarly engaged.
PURPORT
Saubhari Muni, giving conclusions derived from his practical experience, instructs us that persons interested in crossing to the other side of the material ocean must give up the association of persons interested in sex life and accumulating money. This is also advised by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu:
niṣkiñcanasya bhagavad-bhajanonmukasya 
        pāraṁ paraṁ jigamiṣor bhava-sāgarasya 
        sandarśanaṁ viṣayiṇām atha yoṣitāṁ ca 
        hā hanta hanta viṣa-bhakṣaṇato 'py asādhu 
        (Caitanya-candrodaya-nāṭaka 8.27)
“Alas, for a person seriously desiring to cross the material ocean and engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord without material motives, seeing a materialist engaged in sense gratification and seeing a woman who is similarly interested is more abominable than drinking poison willingly.”
One who desires complete freedom from material bondage can engage himself in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. He must not associate with  viṣayi —materialistic persons or those interested in sex life. Every materialist is interested in sex. Thus in plain language it is