Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 8 - Chapter 1 - Verse 47

Sanskrit:

जनोऽबुधोऽयं निजकर्मबन्धन:सुखेच्छया कर्म समीहतेऽसुखम् ।यत्सेवया तां विधुनोत्यसन्मतिंग्रन्थिं स भिन्द्याद् धृदयं स नो गुरु: ॥ ४७ ॥

ITRANS:

jano ’budho ’yaṁ nija-karma-bandhanaḥsukhecchayā karma samīhate ’sukhamyat-sevayā tāṁ vidhunoty asan-matiṁgranthiṁ sa bhindyād dhṛdayaṁ sa no guruḥ

Translation:

In hopes of becoming happy in this material world, the foolish conditioned soul performs fruitive activities that result only in suffering. But by rendering service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one becomes free from such false desires for happiness. May my supreme spiritual master cut the knot of false desires from the core of my heart.

Purport:

For material happiness, the conditioned soul involves himself in fruitive activities, which actually put him into material distress. Because the conditioned soul does not know this, he is said to be in avidyā, or ignorance. Because of a false hope for happiness, the conditioned soul becomes involved in various plans for material activity. Here Mahārāja Satyavrata prays that the Lord sever this hard knot of false happiness and thus become his supreme spiritual master.