Sri mad Bhagavatam - Prabhupada

Text 16]The Glories of Devotional Service1017TEXT 15(1:)1g aceta khalv asya bandhayamuktaye ctitmano matamgur.e§U saktam bandhtiyaratam vii pumsi muktayeceta-consciousness; khalu-indeed; asya- of him; bandhiiya-forbondage; muktaye-for liberation; ca-and; iitmanal].-of the living entity;matam-is considered; gueu -in the three modes of nature; saktamattracted;bandhiiya-for conditional life; ratam -attached;vii-or; pumsiinthe Supreme Personality of Godhead; muktaye-for liberation.TRANSLATIONThe stage in which the consciousness of the living entity is attracted bythe three modes of material nature is called conditional life. But whenthat same consciousness is attached to the Supreme Personality of Godhead,one is situated in the consciousness of liberation.PURPORTThere is a distinction here between Krf.la consciousness and mayaconsciousness. Gur-eflu, or maya consciousness, involves attachment to thethree material modes of nature, under which one works sometimes ingoodness and knowledge, sometimes in passion and sometimes in ignorance.These different qualitative activities, with the central attachment for materrial enj oyment, are the cause of one's conditional life. When the same ceta{l,or consciousness, is transferred to the Supreme Personality of Godhead,Krf.la, or when one becomes Kqa conscious, he is on the path of liberation.TEXT 163l¥ti;t1: i$i¥tJlf: Im : :wet aham mamtibhimtinotthai{lktima-lobhtidibhir malai{l