Prabhupāda: Hmm. (break) ...kintu ca bhakti-bhājām. (Bs. 5.54) Read that commentary (indistinct). (break) (reading) kari punya kartavyam iti cen na tasyapi samsara hetaktvena klesa hetakta tasmad punya papayor virasatam jnanam eva samvarsana..., samvarsaniyam eva ity aha parabhava karma paratantra tad eva jivasya bandhana. Because according to your karma, you are becoming entangled, and that is your material existence. That is your material existence.
Jivasya bandhana sah, sah ajñāna krta sthavad eva lampati. Ajñāna: he does not know. He, he does not know that "I am not this body," so what is the use of getting a better body? This is our (indistinct). If you are not this body—suppose you are suffering from some disease, you are uncomfortable—if I say, "All right, let me change your dress," what is the use? (laughing) You are suffering. I am suffering from fever, and you change my dress, shall I be relieved? This is going on. The karmī, karmīs, they are simply changing dress: "All right, I have got fever. I have got this dress—change." But make treatment, so that you can be, become relieved from the fever. What is the use of changing dress?
(reading) Samsara hetaktvena klesa hetakta tasmad punya papayor virasatam jnanam eva varsaniya eva ity aha parabhava karma paratantra tad eva jivasya bandhana sahaja ajnana krta sthavad eva bhavati yavan na jijnasatah eti. So long one does not aware that "I am this dress," or "I am beyond this dress…"
(break) tavad karmani nanas santi yavad kriya punya papa karmany suh sthavad idam manah hi karmatmakam karma svabhava eva syat yena karmatmakena manasa sarira bhava. Yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam, parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto. Very important verse. Every verse of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. There is no more any literature throughout the whole world, such authoritative statement of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. (sings:)
- parābhavas tāvad abodha-jāto
- yāvan na jijñāsata ātma-tattvam
- yāvat kriyās tāvad idaṁ mano vai
- karmātmakaṁ yena śarīra-bandhaḥ
- (SB 5.5.5)
Karmātmakaṁ. Manah. Karmātmakaṁ. "I am thinking always." Just like one Marwari gentleman in Calcutta, that a big merchant in share exchange. So he monopolized one share from Kamarhati(?) state. So he could not sleep at night, and at the time of death, "Kamarhati, Kamarhati, Kamarhati." So he became like the Kamarhati (indistinct). And you can check it. Where is your science to check it? You cannot check even death. What he will check what he is going to accept another body? That is not in your power.
Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ (BG 3.27). That is in the hands of prakṛti, māyā: "Come on, take this body, rascal." How you will avoid it? They do not know. They do not know. They think, "I have conquered. I have got three crores of rupees." Speculating on (indistinct) and share, that's all. Then parābhavaḥ: his three crores of rupees remain with his bank, and he goes with his wife, and he accepts another body. And he is rascal number one. Abodha. Hare Kṛṣṇa. (end)