Text 46] Instructions for Civilized Human Beings 253

If one has no connection with Nitai, Balarama, then even though one is a
very learned scholar or jfdni or has taken birth in a very respectable
family, these assets will not help him. We must therefore conquer the
enemies of Krsna consciousness with the strength received from
Balarama.

TEXT 46
aT THATHATS fexTT fora
ated fraeegy fafeyatea |
ITA ACTATAT THSHY
dara seventy fafa edi

nocet pramattam asad-indriya-vaji-siita
nitvotpatham visaya-dasyusu niksipanti

te dasyavah sahaya-sitam amum tamo ’ndhe
samsara-kiipa uru-mrtyu-bhaye ksipanti

nocet—if we do not follow the instructions of Acyuta, Krsna, and do
not take shelter of Balarama; pramattam—careless, inattentive; asat—
which are always prone to material consciousness; indriya—the senses;
vaji—acting as the horses; satah—the chariot driver (intelligence);
nitva—bringing; utpatham—to the roadway of material desire;
visaya—the sense objects; dasyusu—in the hands of the plunderers;
niksipanti—throw; te—those; dasyavah—plunderers; sa—with; haya-
sutam—the horses and chariot driver; amum—all of them; tamah—
dark; andhe—blind; samsdara-kiipe—into the well of material existence;
uru—great; mrtyu-bhaye—tear of death; ksipanti—throw.

TRANSLATION

Otherwise, if one does not take shelter of Acyuta and Baladeva,
then the senses, acting as the horses, and the intelligence, acting as
the driver, both being prone to material contamination, inatten-
tively bring the body, which acts as the chariot, to the path of sense
gratification. When one is thus attracted again by the rogues of
visaya—eating, sleeping and mating—the horses and chariot
