194 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 5
products of the same principle, namely the interaction of false ego and
the mode of goodness.

PURPORT

False ego interacting with the different modes of material nature is the

source of all materials in the phenomenal world.
TEXT 31
Saariizaes era = 182
taijasanindriyany eva
jiana-karma-mayani ca

taijasani—the mode of passion; indriydni—the senses; eva—certainly;
jiidna—knowledge, philosophical speculations; karma—fruitive activities;
naydni—predominating; ca—also.

TRANSLATION

The senses are certainly products of the mode of passion in false ego,
and therefore philosophical speculative knowledge and fruitive activities
are predominantly products of the mode of passion.

PURPORT

The chief function of the false ego is godlessness. When a person forgets
his constitutional position as an eternally subordinate part and parcel of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead and wants to be happy indepen-
dently, he functions mainly in two ways. He first attempts to act
fruitively for personal gain or sense gratification, and after attempting such
fruitive activities for a considerable time, when he is frustrated, he
becomes a philosophical speculator and thinks himself to be on the same
level as God. This false idea of becoming one with the Lord is the last
snare of the illusory energy, which traps a living entity into the bondage
of forgetfulness under the spell of false ego.

The best means of liberation from the clutches of false ego is to give up
the habit of philosophical speculation regarding the Absolute Truth. One
should know definitely that the Absolute Truth is never realized by the
philosophical speculations of the imperfect egoistic person. The Absolute
Truth or the Supreme Personality of Godhead is realized by hear-
