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TEXT 29 prakrter guna-sammudhah
SYNONYMS  prakrteh--impelled
by the material modes; guna-sammudhah--befooled by material identification;
sajjante--become
engaged; guna-karmasu--in material activities;
tan--all those;
akrtsna-vidah--persons with a poor fund of knowledge; mandan--lazy
to understand self-realization; krtsna-vit--one who is in factual
knowledge; na--may not; vicalayet--try to agitate.
TRANSLATION Bewildered
by the modes of material nature, the ignorant fully engage themselves in
material activities and become attached. But the wise should not unsettle
them, although these duties are inferior due to the performers' lack of
knowledge.
PURPORT Persons who
are unknowledgeable falsely identify with gross material consciousness
and are full of material designations. This body is a gift of the material
nature, and one who is too much attached to the bodily consciousness is
called mandan, or a lazy person without understanding of spirit
soul. Ignorant men think of the body as the self; bodily connections with
others are accepted as kinsmanship; the land in which the body is obtained
is the object of worship; and the formalities of religious rituals are
considered ends in themselves. Social work, nationalism, and altruism are
some of the activities for such materially designated persons. Under the
spell of such designations, they are always busy in the material field;
for them spiritual realization is a myth, and so they are not interested.
Such bewildered persons may even be engaged in such primary moral principles
of life as nonviolence and similar materially benevolent work. Those who
are, however, enlightened in spiritual life, should not try to agitate
such materially engrossed persons. Better to prosecute one's own spiritual
activities silently.
Men who
are ignorant cannot appreciate activities in Krsna consciousness, and therefore
Lord Krsna advises us not to disturb them and simply waste valuable time.
But the devotees of the Lord are more kind than the Lord because they understand
the purpose of the Lord. Consequently they undertake all kinds of risks,
even to the point of approaching ignorant men to try to engage them in
the acts of Krsna consciousness, which are absolutely necessary for the
human being.
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