Teachings of Queen Kunti | Crossing Beyond Illusion’s Currents

“The word pravaha means “current.” When there are very forceful currents in the river and some animal is thrown in, it will be washed away. Similarly, we are being washed away by the currents of material nature, which come one after another like big waves in the Pacific Ocean. Because we are under the grip of the three modes of material nature (prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah [Bg. 3.27]), we are being washed away.
Therefore Bhaktivinoda Thakura says, mayara vase yaccha bhese’: “You are being washed away, carried away, by the currents of material nature.”

These are the currents of hunger and thirst, of birth, death, and old age, the currents of illusion. We are spirit souls, but because we have been put into the material ocean, the currents are carrying us away. However, if we engage twenty-four hours a day in hearing, chanting, and seriously serving Krishna, the current will stop.”
Teachings of Queen Kunti
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada