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# Bhagavatapurana 5.5.6

Bhāgavatapurāṇa 5.5.6

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [5.5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.5.5.6)

evaṃ manaḥ karma-vaśaṃ prayuṅkte avidyayātmany upadhīyamāne /  
prītir na yāvan mayi vāsudeve na mucyate deha-yogena tāvat //

> 6. So long as Karma thus sways the mind, and the Self is enveloped in Avidya (Nescience), and so long as devotion to Me (Vasudeva) does not arise, one is not released from one's relation to body.  
> — S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam

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## Translations (2)

- [The Srimad Bhagavatam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-subbarau.5.5.p6) — S. Subba Rau 1928, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata~en-mt.5.5.6) — English, machine translation

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