300 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 10, Ch. 4

Because the Lord had already taken birth, just like a human child, and
was in the safe custody of Yasoda, everything was happening according to
plan, and there was no need to continue their ill feeling toward Karnsa.
Thus they accepted Karisa’s words.

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evam etan mahda-bhaga
yatha vadasi dehinam

ajridna-prabhavaham-dhih
sva-pareti bhida yatah

evam—yes, this is right; etat—what you have said; mahd-bhaga—O
great personality; yatha—as; vadasi—you are speaking; dehindm—
about living entities (accepting material bodies); ajfidna-prabhava—by
the influence of ignorance; aham-dhih—this is my interest (false ego);
sva-paré iti—this is another’s interest; bhida—differentiation; yatah—
because of such a conception of life.

TRANSLATION

O great personality Karnsa, only by the influence of ignorance
does one accept the material body and bodily ego. What you have
said about this philosophy is correct. Persons in the bodily concept
of life, lacking self-realization, differentiate in terms of “This is
mine” and “This belongs to another.”

PURPORT

Everything is done automatically by the laws of nature, which work
under the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. There is no
question of doing anything independently, for one who has put himself
in this material atmosphere is fully under the control of nature’s laws.
Our main business, therefore, should be to get out of this conditioned life
and again become situated in spiritual existence. Only due to ignorance
does a person think, “I am a demigod,” “I am a human being,” “I am a
