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TEXT 5 nirmana-moha jita-sanga-dosa
SYNONYMS  nih--without;
mana--respect; mohah--illusion; jita--having conquered;
sanga--association; dosah--faulty; adhyatma--spiritual;
nityah--eternity; vinivrtta--associated; kamah--lust;
dvandvaih--with duality; vimuktah--liberated; sukha-duhkha--happiness
and distress; samjnaih--named; gacchanti--attains; amudhah--unbewildered;
padam--situation; avyayam--eternal; tat--that.
TRANSLATION One who is
free from illusion, false prestige, and false association, who understands
the eternal, who is done with material lust and is freed from the duality
of happiness and distress, and who knows how to surrender unto the Supreme
Person, attains to that eternal kingdom.
PURPORT The surrendering
process is described here very nicely. The first qualification is that
one should not be deluded by pride. Because the conditioned soul is puffed
up, thinking himself the lord of material nature, it is very difficult
for him to surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One should
know by the cultivation of real knowledge that he is not lord of material
nature; the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the Lord. When one is free
from delusion caused by pride, he can begin the process of surrender. For
one who is always expecting some honor in this material world, it is not
possible to surrender to the Supreme Person. Pride is due to illusion,
for although one comes here, stays for a brief time and then goes away,
he has the foolish notion that he is the lord of the world. He thus makes
all things complicated, and he is always in trouble. The whole world moves
under this impression. People are considering that the land, this earth,
belongs to human society, and they have divided the land under the false
impression that they are the proprietors. One has to get out of this false
notion that human society is the proprietor of this world. When one is
freed from such a false notion, he becomes free from all the false associations
caused by familial, social and national affections. These fake associations
bind one to this material world. After this stage, one has to develop spiritual
knowledge. One has to cultivate knowledge of what is actually his own and
what is actually not his own. And, when one has an understanding of things
as they are, he becomes free from all dual conceptions such as happiness
and distress, pleasure and pain. He becomes full in knowledge; then it
is possible for him to surrender to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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