Text 21] Prahlada Pacifies the Lord with Prayers 213

When one gives up materially designated positions and works directly
under the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one’s spiritual life is
revived. This is described as svartipena avasthiti, being situated in one’s
original constitutional position. This is the real description of mukti, or
liberation from material bondage.

TEXT 21
WAN Aas Tala SAAT TST:
area atfeayrardy Fa: |
sad 8 yaaaftateai
TATA MSA ATT 1122

maya manah srjati karmamayam baliyah
kalena codita-gundnumatena purmsah

chandomayam yad ajayarpita-sodasaram
samsdra-cakram aja ko ’titaret tvad-anyah

mayd—the external energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead;
manah—the mind;*  syjati—creates; | karma-mayam—producing
hundreds and thousands of desires and acting accordingly; baliyah—ex-
tremely powerful, insurmountable; kalena—by time; codita-guna—
whose three modes of material nature are agitated; anumatena—permit-
ted by the mercy of the glance (time); purmsah—of the plenary portion,
Lord Visnu, the expansion of Lord Krsna; chandah-mayam—chiefly in-
fluenced by the directions in the Vedas; yat—which; ajayd—because of
dark ignorance; arpita—offered; sodasa—sixteen; aram—the spokes;
samsdra-cakram—the wheel of repeated birth and death in different
species of life; aja—O unborn Lord; kah—who (is there); atitaret—able
to get out; tvat-anyah—without taking shelter at Your lotus feet.

*The mind is always planning how to remain in the material world and struggle
for existence. It is the chief part of the subtle body, which consists of the mind,
intelligence and false ego.
