Bad association ruins even the virtuous, while the Lord's association swiftly liberates the fallen.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.55 — August 11, 1975, Paris 750811SB-PARIS [25:26 Minutes] SB-06.01.55_750811SB-PARIS [devotee translates into French throughout]
Prabhupāda: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] Which verse?
[pause] Verse number 55. [leads chanting line by line] eṣa prakṛti-saṅgena puruṣasya viparyayaḥ āsīt sa eva na cirād īśa-saṅgād vilīyate [SB 6.1.55] Hmm. In the previous verse it has been discussed, na hi kaścit kṣaṇam api jātu tiṣṭhaty akarma-kṛt. Nobody can...
[child making sounds; mother takes out] Just like this child. He wants to do something. [laughter] He does not know that he is doing something nonsense. Similarly, the child's father also, he wants to do something, although it is nonsense.
Therefore here it is mentioned, na hi kaścit, "Anyone," kṣaṇam api, "even for a moment," na hi kaścit kṣaṇam api jātu tiṣṭhaty akarma [Bg. 3.5], "he must do something." This is the tendency. How? Kāryate hy avaśaḥ. Avaśaḥ means being forced.
He has no control. He must do something, and he has no control over it. So why no control? No control means he is controlled by somebody else.
He is not in his own control. And what is that controller? Guṇaiḥ svābhāvikair balāt [SB 6.1.53]. He has infected some type of material modes of nature and he has to act accordingly.