Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 11.22.33

yo 'sau guna-ksobha-krto vikarah

pradhana-mulan mahatah prasutah

aham tri-vrn moha-vikalpa-hetur

vaikarikas tamasa aindriyas ca

SYNONYMS

yah asau -- this; guna -- of the modes of nature; ksobha -- by the agitation; krtah -- caused; vikarah -- transformation; pradhana-mulat -- which is generated from the pradhana, the unmanifest form of the total material nature; mahatah -- from the mahat-tattva; prasutah -- generated; aham -- false ego; tri-vrt -- in three phases; moha -- of bewilderment; vikalpa -- and material variety; hetuh -- the cause; vaikarikah -- in the mode of goodness; tamasah -- in the mode of ignorance; aindriyah -- in the mode of passion; ca -- and.

TRANSLATION

When the three modes of nature are agitated, the resultant transformation appears as the element false ego in three phases -- goodness, passion and ignorance. Generated from the mahat-tattva, which is itself produced from the unmanifest pradhana, this false ego becomes the cause of all material illusion and duality.

PURPORT

By giving up one's false ego of identification with the three modes of nature, one can achieve Krsna consciousness, the pure, original state of existence. The word moha-vikalpa-hetuh indicates that because of false ego one considers himself to be the enjoyer of nature and thus develops a false sense of material duality in terms of material happiness and distress. False ego is removed by identifying oneself as the Lord's eternal servitor in full Krsna consciousness.

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