Text 53] —_ Instructions for Civilized Human Beings 261

conscious person can understand that performing yajra according to the
karma-kdnda system is a useless waste of time and that merely giving up
the karma-kanda and accepting the process of speculation is also
unfruitful. Therefore Narottama dasa Thakura has sung in his Prema-

bhakti-candrika:

karma-kanda, jridna-kanda, kevala visera bhanda
‘amrta’ baliya yeba khaya
nana yoni sada phire, kadarya bhaksana kare,
tara janma adhah-pate yaya

A life of karma-kanda or jnana-kdnda is like a poison pot, and one who
takes to such a life is doomed. In the karma-kdnda system, one is
destined to accept birth and death again and again. Similarly, with jfana-
kanda one falls down again to this material world. Only worship of the
Supreme Person offers one the safety of going back home, back to God-
head.

TEXT 53
sfx nae arf Sanfta aa: |
aM TWAANY Tg Art Taq |
MH falas F FF Me HET 11431

indriyani manasy tirmau
vaci vaikarikam manah

vdcam varna-samamnaye
tam omkare svare nyaset

omkaram bindau nade tam

tam tu prane mahaty amum

indriyani—the senses (acting and knowledge-gathering); manasi—in
the mind; urmau—in the waves of acceptance and rejection; véci—in
the words; vaikdrikam—infected by changes; manah—the mind;
vacam—the words; varna-samamndye—in the aggregate of all
alphabets; tam—that (aggregate of all alphabets); omkare—in the con-
cise form of omkdra; svare—in the vibration; nyaset—one should give
