392 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 11

are in the Vaikuntha jagat, the spiritual world, and they never fall into
the material world. Those in the material world are conditioned souls,
nitya-baddha. The nitya-baddhas can become liberated by controlling
the mind because the cause of conditioned life is the mind. When the
mind is trained and the soul is not under the mind’s control, the soul can
be liberated even in this material world. When it is liberated. one is
called jivan-mukta. A jivan-mukta knows how he has become condi-
tioned: therefore he tries to purify himself and return home, back to
Godhead. The eternally conditioned soul is eternally conditioned because
he is controlled by the mind. The conditioned state and liberated state are
compared to the sleeping. unconscious state and the awakened state.
Those who are sleeping and unconscious are eternally conditioned, but
those who are awake understand that they are eternally part and parcel
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Krsna. Therefore even in this
material world, they engage in Krsna’s service. As confirmed by Srila
Rapa Gosvami: thd yasya harer dasye. If one takes to Krsna’s service, he
is liberated, even though he appears to be a conditioned soul within the
material world. Jivan-muktah sa ucyate. In any condition, one is to be
considered liberated if his only business is to serve Krsna.

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