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[[Category:Srimad-Bhagavatam, Canto 05 Chapter 13 - Further Talks Between King Rahugana and Jada Bharata]]
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<h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2>
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<h3>SB Canto 5</h3>
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My dear King Rahūgaṇa, you are also a victim of the external energy, being situated on the path of attraction to material pleasure. So that you may become an equal friend to all living entities, I now advise you to give up your kingly position and the rod by which you punish criminals.
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[[Vanisource:SB 5.13.20|SB 5.13.20, Translation and Purport]]
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My dear King Rahūgaṇa, you are also a victim of the external energy, being situated on the path of attraction to material pleasure. So that you may become an equal friend to all living entities, I now advise you to give up your kingly position and the rod by which you punish criminals. Give up attraction to the sense objects and take up the sword of knowledge sharpened by devotional service. Then you will be able to cut the hard knot of illusory energy and cross to the other side of the ocean of nescience.
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In Bhagavad-gītā Lord Kṛṣṇa compares the material world to a tree of illusion from which one must cut oneself free:

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:na rūpam asyeha tathopalabhyate</dd><dd>nānto na cādir na ca sampratiṣṭhā</dd><dd>aśvattham enaṁ suvirūḍha-mūlam</dd><dd>asaṅga-śastreṇa dṛḍhena chittvā
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:tataḥ padaṁ tat parimārgitavyaṁ</dd><dd>yasmin gatā na nivartanti bhūyaḥ</dd><dd>tam eva cādyaṁ puruṣaṁ prapadye</dd><dd>yataḥ pravṛttiḥ prasṛtā purāṇī
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"The real form of this tree cannot be perceived in this world. No one can understand where it ends, where it begins, or where its foundation is. But with determination, one must cut down this tree with the weapon of detachment. So doing, one must seek that place from which, having once gone, one never returns, and there surrender to that Supreme Personality of Godhead from whom everything has begun and in whom everything is abiding since time immemorial." ([[Vanisource:BG 15.3-4|BG 15.3-4]])

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