Text 25] The Island of Jambiadvipa 261

praptah—who have obtained; nr-jatim—a birth in human society;
tu—certainly; iha—in this land of Bharata-varsa; ye—those who; ca—
also; jantavah—the living beings; jidna—with knowledge; kriya —with
activities, dravya—of ingredients; kalapa—with a collection;
sambhrtam—full; na—not; vai—certainly; yateran—endeavor;
apunah-bhavaya—for the position of immortality; te—such persons;
bhityah —again; vanaukah—birds; iva—like; yanti—go;
bandhanam—to bondage.

TRANSLATION

Bharata-varsa offers the proper land and circumstances in which
to execute devotional service, which can free one from the results
of jana and karma. If one obtains a human body in the land of
Bharata-varsa, with clear sensory organs with which to execute the
sankirtana-yajiia, but in spite of this opportunity he does not take
to devotional service, he is certainly like liberated forest animals
and birds that are careless and are therefore again bound by a
hunter.

PURPORT

In the land of Bharata-varsa one can very easily perform the
saitkirtana-yajna, which consists of Sravanam kirtanam visnoh, or one
can perform other methods of devotional service, such as smaranam
vandanam arcanam ddsyam sakhyam and 4dtma-nivedanam. In
Bharata-varsa one has the opportunity to visit many holy places,
especially Lord Caitanya’s birthsite and Lord Krsna’s_ birthsite—
Navadvipa and Vrndavana—where there are many pure devotees who
have no desire other than to execute devotional service (anyabhilasita-
Sanyam jridna-karmady-andvrtam), and one may thus become free from
the bondage of material conditions. Other paths, such as the path of
Jfidna and the path of karma, are not very profitable. Pious activities can
elevate one to the higher planetary systems, and by speculative
knowledge one can merge into the Brahman existence, but that is not real
profit, for one has to come down again even from the liberated condition
of being merged in Brahman, and certainly one must come down from
the heavenly kingdom. One should endeavor to go back home, back to
