Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 11 - Chapter 1 - Verse 29


Sanskrit:

न ह्यङ्गाजातनिर्वेदो देहबन्धं जिहासति ।यथा विज्ञानरहितो मनुजो ममतां नृप ॥ २९ ॥

ITRANS:

na hy aṅgājāta-nirvedodeha-bandhaṁ jihāsatiyathā vijñāna-rahitomanujo mamatāṁ nṛpa

Translation:

O King, just as a human being who is bereft of spiritual knowledge never desires to give up his false sense of proprietorship over many material things, similarly, a person who has not developed detachment never desires to give up the bondage of the material body.

Purport: