Text 30] The Movements of the Living Entities 1345
When ignorance covers the soul, it is the source of his degradation to the
most abominable condition of hellish life.

To raise oneself from hellish life to the highest position of spiritual
understanding is to transform this lust into love of Krsna. Sri Narottama
dasa Thakura, a great @carya of the Vaignava sampradaya, said, kama krsna-
karmarpane: due to our lust we want many things for our sense gratifica-
tion, but the same lust can be transformed in a purified way so that we
want everything for the satisfaction of the Supreme Personality of God-
head. Anger also can be utilized towards a person who is atheistic or who
is envious of the Personality of Godhead. As we have fallen in this material
existence because of our lust and anger, the same two qualities can be
utilized for the purpose of advancing in Krsna consciousness, and one can
elevate himself again to his former pure spiritual position. Srila Riipa
Gosvami has therefore recommended that because in material existence
we have so many objects of sense gratification, which we need for the
maintenance of the body, we should use all of them without attachment,
for the purpose of satisfying the senses of Krsna; that is actual renunciation.

TEXT 30
qe: qahteee 2 Aapisasd |
memmeragie: safe safeafary uel
bhittaih pavicabhir adrabdhe
dehe dehy abudho ’sakrt
aham mamety asad-grahah
karoti kumatir matim

bhitaih—by material elements; paficabhih—five; arabdhe— made; dehe—
in the body; dehT—the living entit y; abudhah—ignorant; asakrt—constantly;
aham—I; mama—mine; iti—thus; asat—nonpermanent things; grahah—
accepting; karoti—he does; ku-matih—being foolish; matim—thought.

TRANSLATION

By such ignorance the living entity accepts the material body, which is
made of five elements, as himself. With this misunderstanding, he accepts
nonpermanent things as his own and increases his ignorance in the darkest
region.
