SB 4.2.24
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 24
vidyā-buddhir avidyāyāṁ
karmamayyām asau jaḍaḥ
saṁsarantv iha ye cāmum
anu śarvāvamāninam
SYNONYMS
vidyā-buddhiḥ—materialistic education and intelligence; avidyāyām—in nescience; karma-mayyām—formed of fruitive activities; asau—he (Dakṣa); jaḍaḥ—dull; saṁsarantu—let them take birth again and again; iha—here in this world; ye—who; ca—and; amum—Dakṣa; anu—following; śarva—Śiva; avamāninam—insulting.
TRANSLATION
Those who have become as dull as matter by cultivating materialistic education and intelligence are nesciently involved in fruitive activities. Such men have purposely insulted Lord Śiva. May they continue in the cycle of repeated birth and death.
PURPORT
The three curses mentioned above are sufficient to make one as dull as stone, void of spiritual knowledge and preoccupied with materialistic education, which is nescience. After uttering these curses, Nandīśvara then cursed the brāhmaṇas to continue in the cycle of birth and death because of their supporting Dakṣa in blaspheming Lord Śiva.