Text 16] Narada and Angira Instruct King Citraketu 65

na mam duskrtino midhah
prapadyante narddhamah

mayayapahrta-jnana
Gsuram bhavam 4asritah

“Those miscreants who are grossly foolish, lowest among mankind,
whose knowledge is stolen by illusion, and who partake of the atheistic
nature of demons, do not surrender unto Me.”

Ignorance is the bodily conception of life (yasyatma-buddhih kunape
tri-dhatuke. .. sa eva go-kharah). Practically everyone throughout the
universe, especially on this planet, Bhirloka, thinks that there is no
separate existence of the body and soul and therefore no need of self-
realization. But that is not a fact. Therefore all the bradhmanas listed
here, being devotees, travel all over the world to awaken Krsna con-
sciousness in the hearts of such foolish materialists.

The dcdryas mentioned in these verses are described in the
Mahabharata. The word paricasikha is also important. One who is liber-
ated from the conceptions of annamaya, prénamaya, manomaya,
vyndnamaya and Gnandamaya and who is perfectly aware of the subtle
coverings of the soul is called paficasikha. According to the statements of
the Mahabharata (Santi-parva, Chapters 218-219), an dcdrya named
Pajicasikha took birth in the family of Maharaja Janaka, the ruler of
Mithila. The Sankhya philosophers accept Paiicasikhacarya as one of
them. Real knowledge pertains to the living entity dwelling within the
body. Unfortunately, because of ignorance, the living entity identifies
himself with the body and therefore feels pleasure and pain.

TEXT 16
ama meagia yeti: mq |
my Taft wa gaara sehtary 1121
tasmad yuvarh gramya-pasor
mama midha-dhiyah prabhi

andhe tamasi magnasya
jidna-dipa udiryatam
