Text 15] The Movements of the Living Entities 1327
never subjected to the influence of material nature. Material nature is
always under His control, and it is therefore not possible that material
nature can control the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Since the identity of the living entity is very minute, he is prone to
be subjected to material nature, but when he is freed from this material
body, which is false, then he attains the same spiritual nature as the
Supreme Lord. At that time there is no qualitative difference between
him and the Supreme Lord, but because he is not so quantitatively
powerful as to never be put under the influence of material nature, he
is quantitatively different from the Lord.

The entire process of devotional service is to purify oneself of this
contamination of material nature and put oneself on the spiritual platform
where he is qualitatively one with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In
the Vedas it is said that the living entity is always free. Asango hy ayari
purusah. The living entity is liberated. His material contamination is
temporary, and his actual position is that he is liberated. This liberation is
achieved by Krsna consciousness, whichbegins from the point of surrender.
Therefore it is said here, “I offer my respectful obeisances unto the
Supreme Person.”

TEXT 15
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TMMANEI TRA ATHTAS AY
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FIM PM ACTAITA TTT 124 II
yan-mayayoru-guna-karma-nibandhane ’smin
samsdarike pathi carams tad-abhigramena
nasta-smrtih punar ayam pravrnita lokam
yuktya kaya mahad-anugraham antarena

yat—of the Lord; mdyayd—by the mayd; uru-guna—arising from the
great modes; karma—activities; nibandhane—with bonds; asmin—this;
sdmsdrike—of repeated birth and death; pathi—on the path; caran—
wandering; tat—of him; abhisramena—with great pains; nasta—lost; smrtih—
memory; punah—again; ayam—this living entity; pravrnita—may realize;
lokam—his true nature; yuktyd kaya—by what means; mahat-anugraham—
the mercy of the Lord; antarena—without.
