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forms will produce reactions of fruitive bondage (karma-bandhanah). In Srimad-
Bhagavatam it is said:
ndnam pramattah kurute vikarma
yad-indriya-pritaya aprnoti
na sadhu manye yata atmano ‘yam
asann api klesada asa dehah
“A materialistic person, madly engaged in activities for sense enjoyment, does not
know that he is entangling himself in repeated birth and death and that his body,
although temporary, is full of miseries.” (Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.4) A visayi, a per-
son blindly caught in a web of materialistic life, remains in the cycle of birth and
death perpetually. Such a person cannot understand how to execute pure devo-
tional service, and therefore he acts as a karmi, jfiani, yogi or something else, ac-
cording to his desire, but he does not know that the activities of karma, jfiana and
yoga simply bind one to the cycle of birth and death.
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aa ‘feaw Cece oes Catfaen cota |
SSH A AA SRSALA FSA WW” eo I
hena ‘visaya’ haite krsna uddharila toma’
kahana na yaya krsna-krpara mahima”
SYNONYMS
hena visaya—such a fallen condition of material enjoyment; haite—from;
krsna—Lord Krsna; uddharila toma’—has delivered you; kahana nd yaya—cannot
be described; krsna-krpara—of the mercy of Lord Krsna; mahima—the glories.
TRANSLATION
‘By His own free will, Lord Krsna has delivered you from such a condemned
materialistic life. Therefore the glories of Lord Krsna’s causeless mercy cannot
be expressed.”
PURPORT
In the Brahma-samhita (5.54) it is said, karmani nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bha-
jam. Lord Krsna is so merciful that He can stop the reaction of karma for His devo-
tee. Everyone—from a small insect called indra-gopa up to Indra, the King of
heaven—is bound by the reactions of fruitive activities.
