SB 1.8.35 (1964)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT No. 35
Bhave asmin klisyamananam avidya kama karmabhih Srabana smarana arhanani karisyann iti kechana.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS
Bhave—in the material creation, Asmin—this, Klisyamananam—of those who are suffering from, Avidya—nescience, Kama—desire, Karmabhi—by execution of fruitive work, Srabana—hearing, Smarana—remembering, Arhanani—worshipping, Karishyan—may perform, Iti—thus, Kechana—others.
TRANSLATION
Others say that the Lord appeared for renovating the devotional service in the matter of hearing, remembering, worshipping etc. so that the conditioned souls suffering from material pangs may take advantage of them and thereby become liberated.
PURPORT
In the Srimad Bhagwat Geeta the Lord asserts that He appears in every millennium just to re-establish the way of religiosity. The way of religiosity is made by the Supreme Lord as much as the Law is enacted by the Supreme Executive Head. Nobody can manufacture a new path of religion as it is the fashion for certain ambitious persons. The factual way of religiosity is to accept the Lord as the Supreme authority and thus render service unto Him in spontaneous love. A living being cannot but render service only because he is constitutionally made for that purpose. The only function of the living being is to render service to the Lord. The Lord is great and living beings are subordinate to Him. As such the duty of the living being is just to serve Him only. Unfortunately the illusioned living beings out of misunderstanding only become servant of the senses by material desires. This desire is called Avidya or nescience. And out of such illegitimate desires only the living being makes different plans of material enjoyment round about a perverted sex life and therefore becomes entangled in the chain of birth and death in the cycle of species of life by transmigrating into different bodies of different planets under the direction of the agency of the Supreme Lord. Unless, therefore, one is not out of the boundary of this nescience one cannot get free from the threefold miseries of material pangs. That is the law of nature.
The Lord, however, out of His causeless mercy, because He is more merciful to the suffering living beings than they can expect, appears before them and renovates the principles of devotional service comprising of hearing, chanting, remembering, serving, worshipping, praying, co-operating and surrendering unto Him. Adoption of all the above mentioned items or anyone of them can help a conditioned soul to get out of the tangle of nescience and thus become liberated from all material sufferings created by the living being himself illusioned by the external energy. This particular type of mercy is bestowed upon the living being by the Lord in the form of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.