SB 3.31.28

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09_Srimad-Bhagavatam Dict 3.31.28--32.21.1.mp3
TEXT 28
In this way, when the child passes his childhood suffering different kinds of distresses, then he attains boyhood. In boyhood also he suffers pinching pain by some desire to get something which he can never achieve. And thus due to ignorance, he becomes angry and sorry.
 
PURPORT
From birth to the end of five years age, it is called childhood. After five years of age up to the end of fifteenth year is called pauganḍa, and from sixteen years youth..., youthhood begins. So far childhood is concerned, the distresses are already explained. But when the child attains boyhood, he is admitted into a school, which he does not like. He wants to play, but forcibly he has to go to school and study and take responsibility for passing examination. For this he undergoes several kinds of distresses, not only for studying. He wants to get something for playing, but it may be circumstantially he is not able to obtain such things and becomes too much aggrieved and thereby feels various kinds of pain. In one word, he is not happy even in his boyhood, as much as he was unhappy in his childhood, and what to speak of when he attains youthhood. Boys are apt to create so many artificial demands for playing, but in the absence of not getting them properly he becomes furious with anger, result is suffering.

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