Text 7] The Behavior of a Perfect Person 91
petually and enjoy it to the best of their ability. Both of them are fools
and rascals. It is advised that one observe the eternal time factor, which
is the cause of the material body’s appearance and disappearance, and
that one observe the living entity’s entanglement in this time factor. Srila
Bhaktivinoda Thakura therefore sings in his Gitavali:
anddi karama-phale, padi *bhavarnava-jale,
taribare na dekhi upaya
One should observe the activities of eternal time, which is the cause of
birth and death. Before the creation of the present millennium, the liv-
ing entities were under the influence of the time factor, and within the
time factor the material world comes into existence and is again anni-
hilated. Bhiitva bhitva praliyate. Being under the control of the time
factor, the living entities appear and die, life after life. This time factor
is the impersonal representation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
who gives the living entities conditioned by material nature a chance to
emerge from this nature by surrendering to Him.
TEXT 7
AAPHAY TSN AIST Stay |
TART THATS FAA PAAT 1 9
nasac-chastresu sajjeta
nopajiveta jivikam
vada-vadams tyajet tarkan
paksam kamca na sarnsrayet
na—not; asat-sdstresu—literature like newspapers, novels, dramas
and fiction; sajjeta—one should be attached or should indulge in read-
ing; na—nor; upajiveta—one should try to live; jivikam—upon some
professional literary career; vada-vdddn—unnecessary arguments on
different aspects of philosophy; tyajet—one should give up; tarkan—
arguments and counterarguments; paksam—faction; kartwca—any;
na—not; sammsrayet—should take shelter of.
