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| Canto 3: The Status Quo | Chapter 31: Lord Kapila's Instructions on the Movements of the Living Entities |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 3.31.30
SYNONYMS
bhutaih -- by material elements; pancabhih -- five; arabdhe -- made; dehe -- in the body; dehi -- the living entity; abudhah -- ignorant; asakrit -- constantly; aham -- I; mama -- mine; iti -- thus; asat -- nonpermanent things; grahah -- accepting; karoti -- he does; ku-matih -- being foolish; matim -- thought.
TRANSLATION
By such ignorance the living entity accepts the material body, which is made of five elements, as himself. With this misunderstanding, he accepts nonpermanent things as his own and increases his ignorance in the darkest region.
PURPORT
The expansion of ignorance is explained in this verse. The first ignorance is to identify one's material body, which is made of five elements, as the self, and the second is to accept something as one's own due to a bodily connection. In this way, ignorance expands. The living entity is eternal, but because of his accepting nonpermanent things, misidentifying his interest, he is put into ignorance, and therefore he suffers material pangs.
Copyright (c) The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness