Text 6] Lord Rsabhadeva’s Teachings 173
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evan manah karma-vasam prayunkte
avidyayatmany upadhiyamane
pritir na ydvan mayi vdsudeve
na mucyate deha-yogena tavat

evam—thus; manah—the mind; karma-vasam—subjugated by frui-
tive activities; prayurikte—acts; avidyaya—by ignorance; dtmani—
when the living entity; upadhiyamdne—is covered; pritih—love: na—
not; yavat—as long as; mayi—unto Me; vdsudeve— Vasudeva, Krsna:
na—not; mucyate—is delivered: deha-yogena—from contact with the
material body; tévat—so long.

TRANSLATION

When the living entity is covered by the mode of ignorance, he
does not understand the individual living being and the supreme
living being, and his mind is subjugated to fruitive activity.
Therefore, until one has love for Lord Vasudeva, who is none
other than Myself, he is certainly not delivered from having to ac-
cept a material body again and again.

PURPORT

When the mind is polluted by fruitive activity, the living entity wants
to be elevated from one material position to another. Generally everyone
is involved in working hard day and night to improve his economic con-
dition. Even when one understands the Vedic rituals. he becomes in-
terested in promotion to heavenly planets, not knowing that one’s real
interest lies in returning home, back to Godhead. By acting on the plat-
form of fruitive activity. one wanders throughout the universe in
different species and forms. Unless he comes in contact with a devotee of
the Lord, a guru, he does not become attached to the service of Lord
Vasudeva. Knowledge of Vasudeva requires many births to understand.
As confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (7.19): vaésudevah sarvam iti sa mahat-
ma sudurlabhah. After struggling for existence for many births. one
