BHAGAVAD-GITA 3:27

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 3:27

 

prakrteh kriyamanani

gunaih karmani sarvasah

ahankara- vimudhatma

kartaham iti manyate

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

prakrteh--of material nature; kriyamanani--being done; gunaih--by the

modes; karmani--activities; sarvasah--all kinds of;

ahankara-vimudha--bewildered by false ego; atma--the spirit soul;

karta--doer; aham--I; iti--thus; manyate--he thinks.

 

TRANSLATION

 

The spirit soul bewildered by the influence of false ego thinks

himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by

the three modes of material nature.

 

PURPORT

 

Two persons, one in Krsna consciousness and the other in material

consciousness, working on the same level, may appear to be working on

the same platform, but there is a wide gulf of difference in their

respective positions. The person in material consciousness is

convinced by false ego that he is the doer of everything. He does not

know that the mechanism of the body is produced by material nature,

which works under the supervision of the Supreme Lord. The

materialistic person has no knowledge that ultimately he is under the

control of Krsna. The person in false ego takes all credit for doing

everything independently, and that is the symptom of his nescience. He

does not know that this gross and subtle body is the creation of

material nature, under the order of the Supreme Personality of

Godhead, and as such his bodily and mental activities should be

engaged in the service of Krsna, in Krsna consciousness. The ignorant

man forgets that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is known as

Hrsikesa, or the master of the senses of the material body, for due to

his long misuse of the senses in sense gratification, he is factually

bewildered by the false ego, which makes him forget his eternal

relationship with Krsna.

 

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