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| Canto 5: The Creative Impetus | Chapter 14: The Material World as the Great Forest of Enjoyment |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14.5
tatra gato damśa-maśaka-samāpasadair manujaih śalabha-śakunta-taskara-mūshakādibhir uparudhyamāna-bahih-prānah kvacit parivartamāno 'sminn adhvany avidyā-kāma-karmabhir uparakta-manasānupapannārtham nara-lokam gandharva-nagaram upapannam iti mithyā-drishtir anupaśyati
SYNONYMS
tatra — to that household life; gatah — gone; damśa — gadflies; maśaka — mosquitoes; sama — equal to; apasadaih — who are low-class; manu-jaih — by men; śalabha — locusts; śakunta — a large bird of prey; taskara — thieves; mūshaka-ādibhih — by rats and so on; uparudhyamāna — being disturbed; bahih-prānah — the external life air in the form of wealth and so on; kvacit — sometimes; parivartamānah — wandering; asmin — in this; adhvani — path of material existence; avidyā-kāma — by ignorance and lust; karmabhih — and by fruitive activities; uparakta-manasā — due to the mind's being influenced; anupapanna-artham — in which the desired results are never obtained; nara-lokam — this material world; gandharva-nagaram — a will-o'-the-wisp city; upapannam — existing; iti — taking it as; mithyā-drishtih — he whose vision is mistaken; anupaśyati — observes.
TRANSLATION
Sometimes the conditioned soul in household life, being attached to material wealth and possessions, is disturbed by gadflies and mosquitoes, and sometimes locusts, birds of prey and rats give him trouble. Nonetheless, he still wanders down the path of material existence. Due to ignorance he becomes lusty and engages in fruitive activity. Because his mind is absorbed in these activities, he sees the material world as permanent, although it is temporary like a phantasmagoria, a house in the sky.
PURPORT
The following song is sung by Narottama dāsa Thākura:
ahańkāre matta hańā, nitāi-pada pāsariyā,
Due to forgetting the lotus feet of Lord Nityānanda and being puffed up by material possessions, wealth and opulence, one thinks the false, temporary material world to be an actual fact. This is the material disease. The living entity is eternal and blissful, but despite miserable material conditions, he thinks the material world to be real and factual due to his ignorance.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness