chained by

Actually, without Krsna's help, without God's help, you cannot do anything. Sarvasya caham hrdi... Kartaham iti manyate [Bg 3.27]. In the demonic stage the living entity becomes a, what is called, play dog. Prakrteḥ kriyamanani gunaiḥ karmani sarvasaḥ [Bg 3.27]. Just like you have been in the beach: the dog is bound up by the chain, or the master says, "You come here," he has to come here. "You go there," like that. So we are enchained by these laws of material nature-daivi hy esa guna-mayi mama maya duratyaya [Bg 7.14], but we are claiming independent. There is no independence. There cannot be independence. You are the servant. We are all the servant of maya, prakrti, because we have given up the service of the Lord. Our constitutional position is to remain a servant. But if we defy God, Krsna, and we want to become independent, that means we become servant of prakrti. Prakrteḥ kriyamanani gunaiḥ karmani sarvasaḥ [Bg 3.27]. We associate with different modes of material nature-sattva-guna, rajo-guna, tamo-guna. And under different association or being controlled by different modes of material nature, we are getting different varieties of body.    (More...)