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TEXT 5
tatra gato damsa-masaka-samapasadair manujaih salabha-sakunta-taskara-musakadibhir uparudhyamana-bahih-pranah kvacit parivartamano sminn adhvany avidya-kama-karmabhir uparakta-manasanupapannartham nara-lokam gandharva-nagaram upapannam iti mithya-drstir anupasyati.
SYNONYMS
tatrato that household life; gatahgone; damsagadflies; masakamosquitoes; samaequal to; apasadaihwho are low-class; manu-jaihby men; salabhalocusts; sakuntaa large bird of prey; taskarathieves; musaka-adibhihby rats and so on; uparudhyamanabeing disturbed; bahih-pranahthe external life air in the form of wealth and so on; kvacitsometimes; parivartamanahwandering; asminin this; adhvanipath of material existence; avidya-kamaby ignorance and lust; karmabhihand by fruitive activities; uparakta-manasadue to the minds being influenced; anupapanna-arthamin which the desired results are never obtained; nara-lokamthis material world; gandharva-nagarama will-o-the-wisp city; upapannamexisting; ititaking it as; mithya-drstihhe whose vision is mistaken; anupasyatiobserves.
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 dasa Thakura:
Due to forgetting the lotus feet of Lord Nityananda 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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