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bliss. Naturally they are very sweet, like sugar candy, which appeals to everyone. Nescience, however, is compared to the disease called jaundice, which is caused by bilious secretions. Attacked by jaundice, the tongue of a diseased person cannot palatably relish sugar candy. Rather, a person with jaundice considers something sweet to taste very bitter.  Avidyā  (ignorance) similarly perverts the ability to relish the transcendentally palatable name, quality, form and pastimes of Kṛṣṇa. Despite this disease, if one with great care and attention takes to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, chanting the holy name and hearing Kṛṣṇa's transcendental pastimes, his ignorance will be destroyed and his tongue enabled to taste the sweetness of the transcendental nature of Kṛṣṇa and His paraphernalia. Such a recovery of spiritual health is possible only by the regular cultivation of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
When a man in the material world takes more interest in the materialistic way of life than in Krṣṇa consciousness, he is considered to be in a diseased condition. The normal condition is to remain an eternal servant of the Lord ( jīvera  ‘ svarūpa ’  haya  —  krṣṇera  ‘ nitya-dāsa ’). This healthy condition is lost when the living entity forgets Krṣṇa due to being attracted by the external features of Krṣṇa’s  māyā  energy. This world of  māyā  is called  durāśraya , which means “false or bad shelter.” One who puts his faith in  durāśraya  becomes a candidate for hoping against hope. In the material world everyone is trying to become happy, and although their material attempts are baffled in every way, due to their nescience they cannot understand their mistakes. People try to rectify one mistake by making another mistake. This is