# Cc. Madhya 1.198 > মোর কর্ম, মোর হাতে-গলায় বান্ধিয়া । > কু-বিষয়-বিষ্ঠা-গর্তে দিয়াছে ফেলাইয়া ॥১৯৮॥ ## Text > mora karma, mora hāte-galāya bāndhiyā > ku-viṣaya-viṣṭhā-garte diyāche phelāiyā ## Synonyms *mora*—our; *karma*—activities; *mora*—our; *hāte*—on the hand; *galāya*—on the neck; *bāndhiyā*—binding; *ku-viṣaya*—of abominable objects of sense gratification; *viṣṭhā*—of the stool; *garte*—in the ditch; *diyāche phelāiyā*—have been thrown. ## Translation **The two brothers, Sākara Mallika and Dabira Khāsa, very humbly submitted that due to their abominable activities they were now bound by the neck and hands and had been thrown into a ditch filled with abominable stoollike objects of material sense enjoyment.** ## Purport Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura has explained *ku-viṣaya garta* as follows: "Because of the activities of the senses, we become subjected to many sense gratificatory processes and are thus entangled by the laws of material nature. This entanglement is called *viṣaya.* When the sense gratificatory processes are executed by pious activity, they are called *su-viṣaya.* The word *su* means 'good,' and *viṣaya* means 'sense objects.' When the sense gratificatory activities are performed under sinful conditions, they are called *ku-viṣaya,* bad sense enjoyment. In either case, either *ku-viṣaya* or *su-viṣaya,* these are material activities. As such, they are compared to stool. In other words, such things are to be avoided. To become free from *su-viṣaya* and *ku-viṣaya,* one must engage himself in the transcendental loving service of Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The activities of devotional service are free from the contamination of material qualities. Therefore, to be free from the reactions of *su-viṣaya* and *ku-viṣaya,* one must take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. In that way, one will save himself from contamination." In this connection, Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura has sung: > karma-kāṇḍa, jñāna-kāṇḍa, kevala viṣera bhāṇḍa > amṛta baliyā yeba khāya > nānā yoni sadā phire, kadarya bhakṣaṇa kare > tāra janma adhaḥ-pāte yāya Su-viṣaya and *ku-viṣaya* both fall under the category of *karma-kāṇḍa.* There is another *kāṇḍa* (platform of activity), called *jñāna-kāṇḍa,* or philosophical speculation about the effects of *ku-viṣaya* and *su-viṣaya* with the intention to find out the means of deliverance from material entanglement. On the platform of *jñāna-kāṇḍa,* one may give up the objects of *ku-viṣaya* and *su-viṣaya.* But that is not the perfection of life. Perfection is transcendental to both *jñāna-kāṇḍa* and *karma-kāṇḍa;* it is on the platform of devotional service. If we do not take to devotional service in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, we have to remain within this material world and endure the repetition of birth and death due to the effects of *jñāna-kāṇḍa* and *karma-kāṇḍa.* Therefore Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura says: > nānā yoni sadā phire, kadarya bhakṣaṇa kare > tāra janma adhaḥ-pāte yāya "One travels throughout various species of life and eats all kinds of nonsense. Thus he spoils his existence." A man in material existence and attached to *ku-viṣaya* or *su-viṣaya* is in the same position as that of a worm in stool. After all, whether it be moist or dry, stool is stool. Similarly, material activities may be either pious or impious, but because they are all material, they are compared to stool. Worms cannot get out of stool by their own endeavor; similarly, those who are overly attached to material existence cannot get out of materialism and suddenly become Kṛṣṇa conscious. Attachment is there. As explained by Prahlāda Mahārāja in *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam* [[sb/7/5/30|(7.5.30)]]: > matir na kṛṣṇe parataḥ svato vā > mitho 'bhipadyeta gṛha-vratānām > adānta-gobhir viśatāṁ tamisraṁ > punaḥ-punaś-carvita-carvaṇānām "Those who have made up their minds to remain in this material world and enjoy sense gratification cannot become Kṛṣṇa conscious. Because of their attachment to material activity, they cannot attain liberation, either by the instructions of superior persons or by their own endeavor or by passing resolutions in big conferences. Because their senses are uncontrolled, they gradually descend to the darkest regions of material existence to repeat the same process of birth and death in desirable or undesirable species of life."