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The Atrocities of King Kaṁsa
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dog,” “I am a cat,” or, when the ignorance is still further advanced, “I am God.” Unless one is fully self-realized, one’s life of ignorance will continue.
TEXT 27
शोकहर्षभयद्वेषलोभमोहमदान्त्रिताः । 
  मिथो घनतं न पश्यन्ति भावैर्भावं पृथग्दृशः ॥२७॥
śoka-harṣa-bhaya-dveṣa- 
  lobha-moha-madānvitāḥ 
  mitho ghnantaṁ na paśyanti 
  bhāvair bhāvaṁ pṛthag-dṛśaḥ
śoka—lamentation; harṣa—jubilation; bhaya—fear; dveṣa—envy; lobha—greed; moha—illusion; mada—madness; anvitāḥ—endowed with; mithaḥ—one another; ghnantaṁ—engaged in killing; na paśyanti—do not see; bhāvaiḥ—because of such differentiation; bhāvaṁ—the situation in relation to the Supreme Lord; pṛthak-dṛśaḥ—persons who see everything as separate from the control of the Lord.
TRANSLATION
Persons with the vision of differentiation are imbued with the material qualities lamentation, jubilation, fear, envy, greed, illusion and madness. They are influenced by the immediate cause, which they are busy counteracting, because they have no knowledge of the remote, supreme cause, the Personality of Godhead.
PURPORT
Kṛṣṇa is the cause of all causes ( sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam ), but one who has no connection with Kṛṣṇa is disturbed by immediate causes and cannot restrain his vision of separation or differences. When an expert physician treats a patient, he tries to find the original cause of the disease and is not diverted by the symptoms of that original cause. Similarly, a devotee is never disturbed by reverses in life.  Tat te 'nukampāṁ susamīkṣamāṇaḥ  ( Bhāg.  10.14.8). A devotee understands that when he is in distress, this is due to his own past misdeeds, which are now