Text 35] Instructions by Maharaja Prthu 859

Everyone—whether akama (a devotee), sarva-kama (a karmi), or moksa-
kama (a jaant or yogt)—is encouraged to worship the Supreme Personality
of Godhead by the direct method of devotional service. In this way one
can get both material and spiritual profit simultaneously.

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pradhana-kalasaya-dharma-sangrahe
Sarira esa pratipadya cetanam

kriya-phalatvena vibhur vibhavyate
yathanalo darusu tad-gunatmakah

pradhana— material nature; kala—time; asaya—desire; dharma—occu-
pational duties; sangrahe—aggregate; sartre—body ; esah—this; pratipadya—
accepting; cetanam—consciousness; kriya—activities; phalatvena—by the
result of; vibhuh—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; vibhavyate—
manifested; yatha—as much as; analah—fire; darusu—in the wood; tat-guna
atmakah—according to shape and quality.

TRANSLATION

The Supreme Personality of Godhead is all-pervading, but He is also
manifested in different types of bodies which arise from a combination
of material nature, time, desires and occupational duties. Thus different
types of consciousness develop, just as fire, which is always basically the
same, blazes in different ways according to the shape and dimension of
firewood.

PURPORT

The Supreme Personality of Godhead constantly lives with the individual
soul as Paramatma. The individual soul has awareness in accord with his
material body, which he attains by virtue of prakrti or material nature. The
material ingredients are activated by force of time, and thus the three
material modes of nature are manifested. According to his association
with the three modes of nature, the living entity develops a particular
type of body. In animal life, the material mode of ignorance is so
prominent that there is very little chance of realizing the Paramatma, who
