Devanagari
एवमेतन्महाभाग यथा वदसि देहिनाम् ।
अज्ञानप्रभवाहंधी: स्वपरेति भिदा यत: ॥ २६ ॥
Verse text
evam etan mahā-bhāga
yathā vadasi dehinām
ajṣāna-prabhavāhaṁ-dhīḥ
sva-pareti bhidā yataḥ
Synonyms
evam
—
yes, this is right
;
etat
—
what you have said
;
mahā
—
bhāga — O great personality
;
yathā
—
as
;
vadasi
—
you are speaking
;
dehinām
—
about living entities (accepting material bodies)
;
ajṣāna
—
prabhavā — by the influence of ignorance
;
aham
—
dhīḥ — this is my interest (false ego)
;
sva
—
parā iti — this is another’s interest
;
bhidā
—
differentiation
;
yataḥ
—
because of such a conception of life .
Translation
O great personality Kaṁsa, only by the influence of ignorance does one accept the material body and bodily ego. What you have said about this philosophy is correct. Persons in the bodily concept of life, lacking self-realization, differentiate in terms of “This is mine” and “This belongs to another.”
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
O great personality Kaṁsa, only by the influence of ignorance does one accept the material body and bodily ego. What you have said about this philosophy is correct. Persons in the bodily concept of life, lacking self-realization, differentiate in terms of "This is mine" and "This belongs to another."
KB 10.4.26
Vasudeva told Kaṁsa, “My dear fortunate brother-in-law, what you are saying about the material body and the soul is correct. Every living entity is born ignorant, misunderstanding this material body to be his self. This conception of life is due to ignorance, and on the basis of this ignorance we create enmity or friendship.
Purport
Everything is done automatically by the laws of nature, which work under the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. There is no question of doing anything independently, for one who has put himself in this material atmosphere is fully under the control of nature’s laws. Our main business, therefore, should be to get out of this conditioned life and again become situated in spiritual existence. Only due to ignorance does a person think, “I am a demigod,” “I am a human being,” “I am a dog,” “I am a cat,” or, when the ignorance is still further advanced, “I am God.” Unless one is fully self-realized, one’s life of ignorance will continue.
Purport (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Because of (yatah) the spell of false identity, one thinks of objects as mine and his (sva para iti bhida). In this way one thinks in terms of duality.
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
You speak this philosophy, which I previously spoke but which you ignored. O great king (mahārāja)! Now you have attained scriptural knowledge! Another version has mahābhāga. The meaning is the same. Of course mahāraja can mean mahā arāja (greatly inglorious), because of his proximity to inauspiciousness. Mahābhāga can mean mahā abhāga (most unfortunate). The identity with the body with the conceptions of “I am the body, I am the enjoyer and doer” is pervaded by ignorance. From this arises separation of self from others.