Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.25.15

cetaḥ khalv asya bandhāya

muktaye cātmano matam

guṇeṣu saktaḿ bandhāya

rataḿ vā puḿsi muktaye

SYNONYMS

cetaḥ — consciousness; khalu — indeed; asya — of him; bandhāya — for bondage; muktaye — for liberation; ca — and; ātmanaḥ — of the living entity; matam — is considered; guṇeṣu — in the three modes of nature; saktam — attracted; bandhāya — for conditional life; ratam — attached; vā — or; puḿsi — in the Supreme Personality of Godhead; muktaye — for liberation.

TRANSLATION

The stage in which the consciousness of the living entity is attracted by the three modes of material nature is called conditional life. But when that same consciousness is attached to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one is situated in the consciousness of liberation.

PURPORT

There is a distinction here between Kṛṣṇa consciousness and māyā consciousness. Guṇeṣu, or māyā consciousness, involves attachment to the three material modes of nature, under which one works sometimes in goodness and knowledge, sometimes in passion and sometimes in ignorance. These different qualitative activities, with the central attachment for material enjoyment, are the cause of one's conditional life. When the same cetaḥ, or consciousness, is transferred to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, or when one becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious, he is on the path of liberation.

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