Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.22.51

prakṛter evam ātmānam

avivicyābudhaḥ pumān

tattvena sparśa-sammūḍhaḥ

saḿsāraḿ pratipadyate

SYNONYMS

prakṛteḥ — from material nature; evam — in this way; ātmānam — the self; avivicya — failing to distinguish; abudhaḥ — the unintelligent; pumān — person; tattvena — because of thinking (material things) to be real; sparśa — by material contact; sammūḍhaḥ — completely bewildered; saḿsāram — the cycle of material existence; pratipadyate — attains.

TRANSLATION

An unintelligent man, failing to distinguish himself from material nature, thinks nature to be real. By contact with it he becomes completely bewildered and enters into the cycle of material existence.

PURPORT

A similar verse is found in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.7.5):

yayā sammohito jīva

ātmānaḿ tri-guṇātmakam

paro 'pi manute 'narthaḿ

tat-kṛtaḿ cābhipadyate

"Due to this external energy, the living entity, although transcendental to the three modes of material nature, thinks of himself as a material product and thus undergoes the reactions of material miseries."

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