Material life's illusion binds us to temporary identities; only guru knowledge liberates the eternal soul.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.10 — November 10, 1974, Bombay 741110SB-BOMBAY [42:15 Minutes] SB-03.25.10_741110SB-BOMBAY Nitāi: "[Now be pleased, my Lord, to dispel my great delusion. Due to my feeling of false ego, I have been] ...engaged by Your māyā and have identified myself with the body and consequent bodily relations." Prabhupāda: atha me deva sammoham apākraṣṭuṁ tvam arhasi yo 'vagraho 'haṁ mametīty etasmin yojitas tvayā [SB 3.25.10] So Devahūti is accepting, or accepted, her son Kapiladeva as guru, and now he [she] is placing the problem and how to solve it. So to go to guru means to solve the material problem. Not temporary problem, "I have got some disease.
Give me some mantra so that I may cure," or "I am in poverty. Give me some mantra where I can get money." Not like that. "To deliver me from the sammoha, illusion, ahaṁ mameti [SB 5.5.8]." This material life is sammoha, ahaṁ mameti. Atha...
The material life begins: puṁsaḥ striyā mithunī-bhāvam etat [SB 5.5.8]. This material life is described in four lines. What is this material life? Now, puṁsaḥ striyā mithunī-bhāvam etam.
Etat, this material life, is nothing but an attraction of sex. Puṁsam striyā. The man is after woman, and woman is after man. This is material life, beginning.
Everywhere, not only human society. Even in bird society, dog society, cat society or demigods' society—everywhere you'll see the sex attraction. Puṁsaḥ striyā mithunī-bhāvam etaṁ tayor mitho hṛdaya-granthim āhuḥ. And...
They are seeking, and as soon as they are joined together to satisfy the sex desire, their the, I mean to say, attraction becomes more and more tight. Then ato gṛha-kṣetra-sutāpta-vittair janasya moho 'yam ahaṁ mameti [SB 5.5.8]. So as soon as they are combined, they require one house or apartment or cottage or nest. Something must be private.
Ataḥ gṛha-kṣetra. Then to work, to earn livelihood, one must have some land. Either you construct skyscraper building or till it for get some food grain. Ataḥ gṛha-kṣetra, suta.