Text 8] Lord Rsabhadeva’s Teachings 175

useless waste of time. Being forgetful of his own interest, he tries
to be happy in the material world, centering his interests around
his home, which is based on sexual intercourse and which brings
him all kinds of material miseries. In this way one is no better than
a foolish animal.

PURPORT

In the lowest stage of devotional life, one is not an unalloyed devotee.
Anyabhilasita-sinyam jndna-karmddy-anavrtam: to be an unalloyed
devotee, one must be freed from all material desires and untouched by
fruitive activity and speculative knowledge. On the lower platform. one
may sometimes be interested in philosophical speculation with a tinge of
devotion. However, at that stage one is still interested in sense gratifica-
tion and is contaminated by the modes of material nature. The influence
of maya is so strong that even a person advanced in knowledge actually
forgets that he is Krsna’s eternal servant. Therefore he remains satisfied
in his householder life, which is centered around sexual intercourse.
Conceding to a life of sex, he agrees to suffer all kinds of material mis-
eries. Due to ignorance, one is thus bound by the chain of material laws.

TEXT 8
ga: faa fagataraad
aalfagt ecaaterarg: |
aat qeqraaataa-
waa | Watsaae ANA IN II

pumsah striya mithuni-bhavam etam
tayor mitho hrdaya-granthim ahuh

ato grha-ksetra-sutapta-vittair
Janasya moho ’yam aham mameti

purmsah—of a male: striyah—of a female: mithuni-bhavam—attrac-
tion for sexual life: etam—this: tayoh—of both of them: mithah—be-
tween one another: hrdaya-granthim—the knot of the hearts: @huh—
they call; atah—thereafter; grha—by home: ksetra—field: suta—
