SB 3.27.21

Sridhara Svami comments in this connection that simply by association of material nature one does not become conditioned. The conditional life begins only by being infected by the modes of material nature. In other words, that if somebody is in connection with the police department, that does not mean that he is a criminal. And so long one does not commit criminality, even there is a police department, he has no connection with that. Similarly, to associate with material nature just at the present moment, even who is called a liberated soul, he is also in association with the material nature, but it does not mean that he is affected by it.

Even the Supreme Personality of Godhead when He descends in the material world, He is supposed to be in association with the material nature, but He is not affected. So one has to act in such a way that in spite of being in material nature one is not affected by its contamination. There is one nice example that the lotus flower, although in association with water, it does not mix with the water. So in such a way one has to live, and that is described here by the Personality of Godhead Kapiladeva: animitta-nimittena (a-n-i-m-i-t-t-a n-i-m-i-t-t-e-n-a) animittena animitta-nimittena sva-dharmenamalatmana(s-w-a d-h-a-r-m-a-n-e-a-m-a-l-a-m-t-a-m-n-a). Here ends the tape, no more recording.

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