Text 143] The Lord’s Dancing at Ratha-yatra 187
PURPORT
The bodily conception is created by the desire for material enjoyment. This is
called vipada-smrti, which is the opposite of real life. The living entity is eternally
the servant of Krsna, but when he desires to enjoy the material world, he cannot
progress in spiritual life. One can never be happy by advancing materially. This is
also stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (7.5.30): adanta-gobhir visatarn tamisram punah
punas Carvita-carvananam. Through the uncontrolled senses, one may advance
one’s hellish condition. He may continue to chew the chewed; that is, repeatedly
accept birth and death. The conditioned souls use the duration of life between
birth and death only to engage in the same hackneyed activities—eating, sleep-
ing, mating and defending. In the lower animal species, we find the same ac-
tivities. Since these activities are repeated, engaging in them is like chewing that
which has already been chewed. If one can give up his ambition to engage in
hackneyed material life and take to Krsna consciousness instead, he will be liber-
ated from the stringent laws of material nature. One does not need to make a
separate attempt to become liberated. If one simply engages in the service of the
Lord, he will be liberated automatically. As Srila Bilvamangala Thakura therefore
says, muktih svayamn mukulitafjali sevate ‘sman: “Liberation stands before me
with folded hands, begging to serve me.”
TEXT 143
quae, cattaea, ATa-AhAa, a,
CHS See alive eet |
CAS ACH Gere, TUS, frei, RAI,
ay fou, cmaca atiafseT N sse I
vrndavana, govardhana, yamuna-pulina, vana,
sei kufje rasadika Iila
sei vrajera vraja-jana, mata, pita, bandhu-gana,
bada citra, kemane pasarila
SYNONYMS
vrndavana—the transcendental land known as Vrndavana; govardhana—

Govardhana Hill; yamund-pulina—the bank of the Yamuna; vana—all the forests
where the pastimes of the Lord took place; sei kufje—in the bushes in that
forest; rasa-adika lila—the pastimes of the rasa dance; sei—that; vrajera—of
Vindavana; vraja-jana—inhabitants; mata—mother; pita—father; bandhu-
gana—friends; bada citra—most wonderful; kemane pdsarila—how have You
forgotten.
