Text 16] The Glories of Devotional Service 1017

TEXT 15
AA: GAY TINT FHA AHA ATT |
TAY ah TT TT at Ga gma 14!

cetah khalv asya bandhaya
muktaye cdtmano matam

gunesu saktam bandhaya
ratam vd pumsi muktaye

cetah—consciousness; khalu—indeed; asya—of him; bandhaya—for
bondage; muktaye—for liberation; ca—and; atmanah—of the living entity;
matam—is considered; gunesu—in the three modes of nature; saktam—
attracted; bandha@ya—for conditional life; ratam—attached;va@—or; pumsi—
in the Supreme Personality of Godhead; muktaye—for liberation.

TRANSLATION

The stage in which the consciousness of the living entity is attracted by
the three modes of material nature is called conditional life. But when
that same consciousness is attached to the Supreme Personality of God-
head, one is situated in the consciousness of liberation.

PURPORT

There is a distinction here between Krsna consciousness and maya
consciousness. Gunesu, or mayd consciousness, involves attachment to the
three material modes of nature, under which one works sometimes in
goodness and knowledge, sometimes in passion and sometimes in ignorance.
These different qualitative activities, with the central attachment for mate-
rial enjoyment, are the cause of one’s conditional life. When the same cetah,
or consciousness, is transferred to the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
Krsna, or when one becomes Krsna conscious, he is on the path of libera-
tion.

TEXT 16
sémnirrian amennlsinia: |
fd Wat Wa: UsAtanaad AAT 24

aham mamabhimanotthaih
kdma-lobhadibhir malath
