SB 3.26.6
TEXT 6
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TEXT
एवं पराभिध्यानेन कर्तृत्वं प्रकृतेः पुमान् ।
कर्मसु क्रियमाणेषु गुणैरात्मनि मन्यते ॥ ६ ॥ evam parabhidhyanena
kartrtvam prakrteḥ puman
karmasu kriyamanesu
gunair atmani manyate
evam-in this way; para-other; abhidhyanena-by identification; kartrtvam-the doing of activities; prakrteḥ-of the material nature; puman-the living entity; karmasu kriyamanesu-while the activities are being performed; gunaiḥ-by the three modes; atmani-to himself; manyate-he considers.
TRANSLATION
Due to his forgetfulness, the transcendental living entity accepts the influence of material energy as his field of activities, and, thus actuated, he wrongly applies the activities to himself.
The forgetful living entity can be compared to a man who is under the influence of disease and has become mad, or to a man haunted by ghosts who acts without control and yet thinks himself to be in control. Under the influence of material nature, the conditioned soul becomes absorbed in material consciousness. In this consciousness, whatever is done under the influence of the material energy is accepted by the conditioned soul as self-actuated. Actually, the soul in his pure state of existence should be in Krsna consciousness. When a person is not acting in Krsna consciousness he is understood to be acting in material consciousness. Consciousness cannot be killed because the symptom of the living entity is consciousness. The material consciousness simply has to be purified. One becomes liberated by accepting Krsna, or the Supreme Lord, as master and by changing the mode of consciousness from material consciousness to Krsna consciousness.
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