1346 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 31

PURPORT

The expansion of ignorance is explained in this verse. The first ignorance
is to identify one’s material body, which is made of five elements, as the
self, and the second is to accept something as one’s own due to a bodily
connection. In this way ignorance expands. The living entity is eternal,
but because of his accepting nonpermanent things, misidentifying his in-
terest, he is put into ignorance, and therefore he suffers material pangs.

TEXT 31

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tad-artham kurute karma
yad-baddho yati samsrtim

yo ‘nuyati dadat klesam
avid ya-karma-bandhanah

tat-artham—for the sake of the body; kurute—he performs; karma—
actions; yat-baddhah—bound by which; yati—he goes; samsrtim—to
repeated birth and death; yah—which body; anuyati—follows; dadat—
giving; klesam—misery; avid ya—by ignorance; karma—by fruitive activities;
bandhanah—the cause of bondage.

TRANSLATION

For the sake of the body, which is a source of constant trouble to him
and which follows him because he is bound by ties of ignorance and
fruitive activities, he performs various actions which cause him to be
subjected to repeated birth and death.

PURPORT

In Bhagavad-gita it is said that one has to work to satisfy Yajfia, or
Visnu, for any work done without the purpose of satisfying the Supreme
Personality of Godhead is a cause of bondage. In the conditioned state a
living entity, accepting his body as himself, forgets his eternal relationship
with the Supreme Personality of Godhead and acts on the interest of his
body. Ile takes the body as himself, his bodily expansions as his kinsmen
