You keep this whole world bound up by the ropes of affection, and thus when people consider their material bodies, they think, “This is me,” and when they consider their progeny and other relations, they think, “These are mine.”
PURPORT
This verse has not purport by Hṛdayānanda, humble servant of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Svāmī Prabhupāda.