Mantra Eleven o7
called a naradhama, the lowest of human beings.

The path of avidya, or material advancement of knowledge
for sense gratification, means repetition of death and repetition
of birth also. The living entity, as he is spiritually, has no birth
or death. Birth and death are concerned with the outward
covering of the spirit soul, the body. This is compared with the
pulling on and taking off of outward garments. Foolish human
heings who are grossly absorbed in the culture of avidya,
nescience, do not mind this cruel process, but, being enamored
of the beauty of the illusory energy, they do the same things
over repeatedly, without learning any lesson from the law
of Nature.

The culture of vidyd or transcendental knowledge is essential
for the human being. Unrestricted sense enjoyment in the
iliscased, material condition of the senses must be restricted as
lar as possible. Unrestricted sense enjoyment in this bodily
condition is the path of ignorance and death. The living entities
are not without spiritual senses. Every living being in his original
spiritual form has all the senses which are now material,
covered by the body and the mind. Activities of the material
senses are perverted reflections of spiritual pastimes. The engage-
ment of the spirit soul under the material covering is the diseased
condition of the soul. And real sense enjoyment is possible when
the disease is removed. In our pure spiritual form, freed from
all material contamination, pure enjoyment of the senses is
possible. The aim of human life should, therefore, not be
perverted sense enjoyment, but should be to cure the material
ilisease. Aggravating the material disease is no sign of knowledge.
It is the sign of culturing avidyd, ignorance.

The degree of a fever must not be increased from 105 to
107 for good health. The degree is to be reduced to the
normal stale of 98.6. That should be the aim of human life.
The modern trend of material civilization is to increase the
degree of the feverish material condition, which has therefore
reached the point of [07 in the form of atomic energy, with the
