Matir na kṛṣṇe. This Kṛṣṇa philosophy, Kṛṣṇa consciousness . . . matiḥ means attention. So attention to Kṛṣṇa consciousness . . . Matir na kṛṣṇe parataḥ svato vā. Even by hearing instruction from learned, I mean to say, transcendentalists or by self-study . . . parataḥ. Parataḥ means taking lessons or taking instruction from others.
And svataḥ means by self-culture. Matir na kṛṣṇe parataḥ svato vā mitho vā. Mitho vā: "by assembly." By assembly. Na: "It will never be." Matir na kṛṣṇe parataḥ svato vā mitho 'bhipadyeta gṛha-vratānām. Gṛha-vratānām means . . . gṛha means house, and vrata means vow. One who has made his vow that "This worldly life—eat, drink, be merry and enjoy—this is all in all," for them, there is no question of spiritual life.
We have to decide it that spiritual life and material life, they are different angles of vision. If we give more stress to the material life, material way of life, then it is not possible to have any spiritual realization or spiritual emancipation, those things. Because the whole idea is, as we are discussing for several weeks, that I am spirit, pure consciousness. I have been put to this material contact somehow or other. Without tracing the history and how I have put into it . . . but the fact is that I am put into these material circumstances, and therefore, due to my material condition of life, I am undergoing miseries, so many miseries.