1360 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 31

Man and woman should live together as householders in relationship with
Krsna only for the purpose of discharging duties in the service of Krsna.
Engage the children, engage the wife and engage the husband, all in Krsna
conscious duties, and then all these bodily or material attachments will
disappear. Since the via medium is Krsna, the consciousness is pure, and
there is no possibility of degradation at any time.

TEXT 43

Ra Mga | slaeteagarg |
Gea Tr Salter aeteahatd gary eal

dehena jiva-bhittena
lokal lokam anuvrajan
bhujijana eva karmani
karoty aviratam puman

dehena—on account of the body; jiva-bhiitena—possessed by the living
entity; lokat—from one planet; lokam—to another planet; anuvrajan—
wandering; bhufijanah—enjoying; eva—so; karmani—fruitive activities;
karoti—he does; aviratam—incessantly; pumdn—the living entity.

TRANSLATION

Due to his particular type of body, the materialistic living entity
wanders from one planet to another, following fruitive activities. In this
way, he involves himself in fruitive activities and enjoys the result
incessantly.

PURPORT

When the living entity is encaged in the material body, he is called jiva-
bhuta, and when he is free from the material body he is called brahma-
bhiita. By changing his material body birth after birth, he travels not only
in the different species of life, but also from one planet to another. Lord
Caitanya says that the living entities, bound up by fruitive activities, are
wandering in this way throughout the whole universe, and if by some
chance or by pious activities they get in touch with a bona fide spiritual
master, by the grace of Krsna, then they get the seed of devotional service.
After getting this seed, if one sows it within his heart and pours water on it
by hearing and chanting, the seed grows into a big plant, and there are
