Text 27] What Prahlada Learned in the Womb 75
yena mam upayanti te). When devotional service develops and one’s in-
telligence becomes clear, one can use his intelligence to return home,
back to Godhead.
TEXT 27
Caan fF dat TRAaKTa: |
° SS
AMATASTAS FA? AT CAFTA |
etad dvdro hi samsdaro
guna-karma-nibandhanah
ajnana-milo ’partho "pi
pumsah svapna ivarpyate

etat—this; dvaérah—whose door; hi—indeed; samsarah—material
existence, in which one suffers threefold miseries; guna-karma-
nibandhanah—captivation by the three modes of material nature;
ajnadna-miilah—whose root is ignorance; apdrthah—without factual
meaning; api—even; pummsah—of the living entity; svapnah—a dream;
iva—like; arpyate—is placed.

TRANSLATION

Through polluted intelligence one is subjected to the modes of
nature, and thus one is conditioned by material existence. Like a
dreaming state in which one falsely suffers, material existence,
which is due to ignorance, must be considered unwanted and tem-
porary.

PURPORT

The unwanted condition of temporary life is called ignorance. One can
very easily understand that the material body is temporary, for it is
generated at a certain date and ends at a certain date, after undergoing
the six kinds of change, namely birth, death, growth, maintenance,
transformation and dwindling. This condition of the eternal soul is due to
his ignorance, and although it is temporary, it is unwanted. Because of
ignorance one is put into temporary bodies one after another. The spirit
soul, however, does not need to enter such temporary bodies. He does so
