Forgetting Krishna makes the soul dependent on material nature; liberation comes through conscious surrender to the spiritual nature.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.7 — December 19, 1974, Bombay 741219SB-BOMBAY [40:17 Minutes] SB-03.26.07_741219SB-BOMBAY Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [break] tad asya saṁsṛtir bandhaḥ pāra-tantryaṁ ca tat-kṛtam bhavaty akartur īśasya sākṣiṇo nirvṛtātmanaḥ [SB 3.26.7] [break] [01:42] "Material consciousness is the cause of one's conditional life.
Conditions are enforced upon the living entity by the material energy. Although he does not do anything and is transcendental to such activities, the spirit soul is thus affected by conditional life." Prabhupāda: tad asya saṁsṛtir bandhaḥ pāra-tantryaṁ ca tat-kṛtam bhavaty akartur īśasya sākṣiṇo nirvṛtātmanaḥ [SB 3.26.7] So karmasu kriyamāṇeṣu guṇair ātmani manyate [SB 3.26.6]. The conditioned soul... We say "conditioned." It was not conditioned, but now it has become conditioned, pāra-tantrya. kṛṣṇa bhuliya jīva anādi-bahirmukha ataeva māyā tāre deya saṁsāra-duḥkha [Cc. Madhya 20.117] This is a statement in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta. Kṛṣṇa bhuliyā, forgetting Kṛṣṇa, jīva, the living entity, anādi-bahirmukha... Anādi... Ādi means the beginning of the creation, and anādi means before the creation. Anādi.
Nobody knows when it has began. The creation... There are many creations. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate [Bg. 8.19].
Just like this body: it is created, everyone knows. It is created by the father and mother. And it will be annihilated in due course of time by nature's way. Similarly, anything material...
This whole universe, cosmic manifestation, is also created. This is a bigger body, that's all, virāṭ body. And it stays for millions and millions of years during the lifetime of Brahmā. We have got information, Brahmā's one day: sahasra-yuga-paryantam ahar yad brahmaṇo viduḥ [Bg. 8.17].
We cannot calculate even one Brahmā's days. Such one day means daytime, twelve hours; then night, twelve hours. In this one day, such month, such year, such hundred years, Brahmā lives. So this cosmic manifestation, brahmāṇḍa, universe, will stay up to that time.
So there is no difference in the manipulation with this body and the Brahmā. It is the same principle. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate. So this is saṁsṛtiḥ, anādi-bahirmukha. So this creation...