CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

Understanding Material Nature

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sri bhagavan uvaca
prakrti-stho ‘pi puruso

najyate prakrtair gunaih
avikarad akartrtvan

nirgunatvaj jalarkavat

§ri bhagavaén uvaca—the Personality of Godhead said; prakrti-sthah—
residing in the material body; api—although; purusah—the living entity;
na—not; ajyate—is affected; prakrtaih—of material nature; gunaih—by the
modes; avikdrat—from being without change; akartrtvat—by freedom from
proprietorship; nirgunatvat—from being unaffected by the qualities of
material nature; jala—on water; arka-vat—like the sun.

TRANSLATION

The Personality of Godhead Kapila continued: When the living entity
is thus unaffected by the modes of material nature, because he is
unchanging and does not claim proprietorship, he remains apart from the
reaction of the modes, although abiding in a material body, just as the sun
remains aloof from its reflection on water.

PURPORT

In the previous chapter Lord Kapiladeva has concluded that simply by
beginning the discharge of devotional service one can attain detachment

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