Text 5] Lord Rsabhadeva’s Teachings 171

ciating with devotees. He should not become further implicated in the
material body.

TEXT 5

AAMAS ATA
ara faaad aRATay |

qakmaeaaee wat a
Ba TA MAAR | 4 Il
parabhavas tavad abodha-jato

yavan na jyfidsata atma-tattvam
yavat kriyds tavad idam mano vai
karmatmakam yena Sarira-bandhah

parabhavah—defeat, misery; taévat—so long: abodha-jatah—pro-
duced from ignorance; yavat—as long as; na—not; jijfid@sate—inquires
about; dtma-tattvam—the truth of the self; yavat—as long as: kriyah—
fruitive activities; tavat—so long; idam—this; manah—mind: vai—in-
deed; karma-atmakam—absorbed in material activities: yena—by
which; sarira-bandhah—bondage in this material body.

TRANSLATION

As long as one does not inquire about the spiritual values of life,
one is defeated and subjected to miseries arising from ignorance.
Be it sinful or pious, karma has its resultant actions. If a person is
engaged in any kind of karma, his mind is called karmatmaka, col-
ored with fruitive activity. As long as the mind is impure, con-
sciousness is unclear, and as long as one is absorbed in fruitive ac-
tivity, he has to accept a material body.

PURPORT

Generally people think that one should act very piously in order to be
relieved from misery, but this is not a fact. Even though one engages in
pious activity and speculation. he is nonetheless defeated. His only aim
should be emancipation from the clutches of maya and all material
