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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.28.59

तस्मिंस्त्वं रामया स्पृष्टो रममाणोऽश्रुतस्मृति: । तत्सङ्गादीद‍ृशीं प्राप्तो दशां पापीयसीं प्रभो ॥ ५९ ॥
tasmiṁs tvaṁ rāmayā spṛṣṭo
[tasmims tvam raamayaa sprishto]
ramamāṇo ’śruta-smṛtiḥ
[ramamaano ’shruta-smritih]
tat-saṅgād īdṛśīṁ prāpto
[tat-sangaad eedrisheem praapto]
daśāṁ pāpīyasīṁ prabho
[dashaam paapeeyaseem prabho]
Word-for-word
tasmin — in that situation tvam — you rāmayā — with the woman spṛṣṭaḥ — being in contact ramamāṇaḥ — enjoying aśruta-smṛtiḥ — without remembrance of spiritual existence tat — with her saṅgāt — by association īdṛśīm — like this prāptaḥ — you have attained daśām — a state pāpīyasīm — full of sinful activities prabho — My dear friend.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
tasmiṁs tvaṁ rāmayā spṛṣṭo
tasmin
in that situation
tvam
you
rāmayā
with the woman
spṛṣṭaḥ
being in contact
ramamāṇo ’śruta-smṛtiḥ
ramamāṇaḥ
enjoying
aśruta-smṛtiḥ
without remembrance of spiritual existence
tat-saṅgād īdṛśīṁ prāpto
tat
with her
saṅgāt
by association
īdṛśīm
like this
prāptaḥ
you have attained
daśāṁ pāpīyasīṁ prabho
daśām
a state
pāpīyasīm
full of sinful activities
prabho
My dear friend.
My dear friend, when you enter such a body along with the woman of material desires, you become overly absorbed in sense enjoyment. Because of this, you have forgotten your spiritual life. Due to your material conceptions, you are placed in various miserable conditions.
Purport

When a person becomes materially engrossed, he has no capacity to hear about spiritual existence. Forgetfulness of spiritual existence entangles a man more and more in material existence. Such is the result of sinful life. Various bodies are developed with the material ingredients because of different types of sinful activities. King Purañjana assumed the body of a woman, Vaidarbhī, as a result of his sinful activities. Bhagavad-gītā clearly says ( striyo vaiśyās tathā śūdrāḥ ) that such a body is lowborn. If one takes shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, however, he can be elevated to the highest perfection, even though he be lowborn. One acquires lower births when one’s spiritual intelligence is reduced.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
O friend! Having entered that place with the woman, enjoying, without hearing about knowledge of the self, you have attained this sinful condition by association with her. Aśruta-smṛtiḥ means “who had heard nothing by which to gain knowledge of the self.”
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Personal Guidance
You entered with the woman of material desires and got absorbed in sense-enjoyment, forgetting spiritual life. The entry-with-desires is the moment of forgetting; remember who you arrived as.
Reflection Questions
  • Whose desire did I enter this scene with, and have I distinguished it from my own?
  • Where could returning to the entry-point clarify my present?
📝 My note

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