'kṛṣṇa-nitya-dāsa' — jīva tāhā bhuli' gela
ei doṣe māyā tāra galāya bāndhila

 kṛṣṇa-nitya-dāsa - eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa; jīva - the living entity; tāhā - that; bhuli' - forgetting; gela - went; ei doṣe - for this fault; māyā - the material energy; tāra - his; galāya - on the neck; bāndhila - has bound.


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“The living entity is bound around the neck by the chain of māyā because he has forgotten that he is eternally a servant of Kṛṣṇa.

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