tathÄpi viá¹£ayera svabhÄva — kare mahÄ-andha
sei karma karÄya, yÄte haya bhava-bandha
tathÄpi - still; viá¹£ayera svabhÄva - the potency of material enjoyment; kare mahÄ-andha - makes one completely blind; sei karma karÄya - causes one to act in that way; yÄte - by which; haya - there is; bhava-bandha - the bondage of birth and death.
“Those who are attached to materialistic life and are blind to spiritual life must act in such a way that they are bound to repeated birth and death by the actions and reactions of their activities.
As clearly stated in the Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ (3.9), yajñÄrthÄt karmaṇo ’nyatra loko ’yaá¹ karma-bandhanaḥ: if one does not act as a pure devotee, whatever acts he performs will produce reactions of fruitive bondage (karma-bandhanaḥ). Similarly, in ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam (5.5.4) it is said:
nūnaṠpramattaḥ kurute vikarma
yad indriya-prÄ«taya Äpṛṇoti
na sÄdhu manye yata Ätmano ’yam
asann api kleÅ›a-da Äsa dehaḥ
“A materialistic person, madly engaged in activities for sense enjoyment, does not know that he is entangling himself in repeated birth and death and that his body, although temporary, is full of miseries.†A viá¹£ayÄ«, a person blindly caught in a web of materialistic life, remains in the cycle of birth and death perpetually. Such a person cannot understand how to execute pure devotional service, and therefore he acts as a karmÄ«, jñÄnÄ«, yogÄ« or something else, according to his desire, but he does not know that the activities of karma, jñÄna and yoga simply bind one to the cycle of birth and death.
