1366 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 31

TRANSLATION

Endowed with right vision and strengthened by devotional service and a
pessimistic attitude toward material identity, one should relegate his body
to this illusory world through his reason. Thus one can be unconcerned
with this material world.

PURPORT

It is sometimes misunderstood that if one has to associate with persons
engaged in devotional service, he will not be able to solve the economic
problem. To answer this argument, it is described here that one has to
associate with liberated persons not directly, physically, but by under-
standing, through philosophy and logic, the problems of life. It is stated
here, samyag-darsanaya buddhya: one has to see perfectly, and by
intelligence and yoga practice one has to renounce this world. That
renunciation can be achieved by the process recommended in the Second
Chapter of the First Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam.

The devotee’s intelligence is always in touch with the Supreme Person-
ality of Godhead. His attitude toward the material existence is one of
detachment, for he knows perfectly well that this material world is a
creation of illusory energy. Realizing himself to be part and parcel of the
Supreme Soul, the devotee discharges his devotional service and is com-
pletely aloof from material action and reaction. Thus at the end he gives
up his material body or the material energy, and as pure soul he enters

the kingdom of God.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the Third Canto, Thirty-first
Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled “Lord Kapila’s Instructions
on the Movements of the Living Entities.”
