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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.52

దేహ్యజ్ఞోఽజితషడ్‌వర్గో నేచ్ఛన్కర్మాణి కార్యతే । కోశకార ఇవాత్మానం కర్మణాచ్ఛాద్య ముహ్యతి ॥ ౫౨ ॥
dehy ajṣo ’jita-ṣaḍ-vargo
[dehy ajsho ’jita-shad-vargo]
necchan karmāṇi kāryate
[nechchan karmaani kaaryate]
kośakāra ivātmānaṁ
[koshakaara ivaatmaanam]
karmaṇācchādya muhyati
[karmanaachchaadya muhyati]
Word-for-word
dehī — the embodied soul ajṣaḥ — without perfect knowledge ajita-ṣaṭ-vargaḥ — who has not controlled the senses of perception and the mind na icchan — without desiring karmāṇi — activities for material benefit kāryate — is caused to perform kośakāraḥ — the silkworm iva — like ātmānam — himself karmaṇā — by fruitive activities ācchādya — covering muhyati — becomes bewildered.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
dehy ajṣo ’jita-ṣaḍ-vargo
dehī
the embodied soul
ajṣaḥ
without perfect knowledge
ajita-ṣaṭ-vargaḥ
who has not controlled the senses of perception and the mind
necchan karmāṇi kāryate
kośakāra ivātmānaṁ
na icchan
without desiring
karmaṇācchādya muhyati
karmāṇi
activities for material benefit
kāryate
is caused to perform
kośakāraḥ
the silkworm
iva
like
ātmānam
himself
karmaṇā
by fruitive activities
ācchādya
covering
muhyati
becomes bewildered.
The foolish embodied living entity, inept at controlling his senses and mind, is forced to act according to the influence of the modes of material nature, against his desires. He is like a silkworm that uses its own saliva to create a cocoon and then becomes trapped in it, with no possibility of getting out. The living entity traps himself in a network of his own fruitive activities and then can find no way to release himself. Thus he is always bewildered, and repeatedly he dies.
Purport

As already explained, the influence of the modes of nature is very strong. The living entity entangled in different types of fruitive activity is like a silkworm trapped in a cocoon. Getting free is very difficult unless he is helped by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
The ignorant jīva, unable to control his mind and senses, though not desiring to do so, is made to perform activities, and covering himself with actions, becomes bewildered and does not know how to get out, just as silkworm covers himself with a cocoon. Though sometimes the jīva does not want to do activities, he is forced to do so by the subtle body. Then he becomes bewildered like a silkworm, and does not know how to get out of the tangle.
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