Text 51] The Downfall of Saubhari Muni 211

fixed at the lotus feet of the unlimited Supreme Personality of Godhead;

yunjita—one can engage himself; tat-vratisu—with persons of the same

category (desiring liberation from material bondage); sédhusu—such

saintly persons; cet—if; prasarigah—one wants association.
TRANSLATION

A person desiring liberation from material bondage must give
up the association of persons interested in sex life and should not
employ his senses externally [in seeing, hearing, talking, walking
and so on]. One should always stay in a secluded place, completely
fixing his mind at the lotus feet of the unlimited Personality of
Godhead, and if one wants any association at all, he should
associate with persons similarly engaged.

PURPORT

Saubhari Muni, giving conclusions derived from his practical ex-
perience, instructs us that persons interested in crossing to the other side
of the material ocean must give up the association of persons interested
in sex life and accumulating money. This is also advised by Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu:

niskiiicanasya bhagavad-bhajanonmukasya
param param jigamisor bhava-sdgarasya
sandarsanam visayindm atha yositam ca
ha hanta hanta visa-bhaksanato ‘py asddhu
(Caitanya-candrodaya-nétaka 8.27)
“Alas, for a person seriously desiring to cross the material ocean and
engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord without material
motives, seeing a materialist engaged in sense gratification and seeing a
woman who is similarly interested is more abominable than drinking
poison willingly.”

One who desires complete freedom from material bondage can engage
himself in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. He must not
associate with visayi—materialistic persons or those interested in sex
life. Every materialist is interested in sex. Thus in plain language it is
