Bewilderment (SB cantos 7 - 12)

Expressions researched:
"bewilder" |"bewildered" |"bewilderedness" |"bewilderer" |"bewildering" |"bewilderingly" |"bewilderment" |"bewilders"

SB Canto 7

SB 7.2.21, Translation and Purport:

My dear mother, in a restaurant or place for drinking cold water, many travelers are brought together, and after drinking water they continue to their respective destinations. Similarly, living entities join together in a family, and later, as a result of their own actions, they are led apart to their destinations.

prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni

guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ

ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā

kartāham iti manyate

"The bewildered soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself the doer of activities, which are in actuality carried out by nature." (BG 3.27) All living entities act exactly according to the directions of prakṛti, material nature, because in the material world we are fully under a higher control.