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Brahmā's Prayers for Creative Energy
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ahni —during the daytime;  āpṛta —engaged;  ārta —distressing engagement;  karaṇāḥ —senses;  niśi —at night;  niḥśayāṇāḥ —insomnia;  nāṇā —various;  manaḥ-ratha —mental speculations;  dhiyā —by intelligence;  kṣaṇa —constantly;  bhagna —broken;  nidrāḥ —sleep;  daiva —superhuman;  āhata-artha —frustrated;  racanāḥ —plans;  ṛṣayaḥ —great sages;  api —also;  deva —O my Lord;  yuṣmat —Your Lordship's;  prasaṅga —topic;  vimukhāḥ —turned against;  iha —in this (material world);  saṁsaranti —do rotate.
TRANSLATION
Such nondevotees engage their senses in very troublesome and extensive work, and they suffer insomnia at night because their intelligence constantly breaks their sleep with various mental speculations. They are frustrated in all their various plans by supernatural power. Even great sages, if they are against Your transcendental topics, must rotate in this material world.
PURPORT
As described in the previous verse, people who have no taste for the devotional service of the Lord are occupied in material engagements. Most of them engage during the daytime in hard physical labor; their senses are engaged very extensively in troublesome duties in the gigantic plants of heavy industrial enterprise. The owners of such factories are engaged in finding a market for their industrial products, and the laborers are engaged in extensive production involving huge mechanical arrangements. Factory is another name for hell. At night, hellishly engaged persons take advantage of wine and women to satisfy their tired senses, but they are not even able to have sound sleep because their various mental speculative plans constantly interrupt their sleep. Sometimes they feel sleepy in the morning for want of sufficient sleep at night because they suffer from insomnia. By the arrangement of supernatural power, even the great scientists and thinkers of the world suffer frustration of their various plans and thus rot in the material world birth after birth. A great scientist might make discoveries in atomic energy for the quick destruction of the world and might be awarded the best prize in recognition of his service (or disservice), but he also has to undergo the reactions of his work by rotating in the cycle of repeated births and deaths under the superhuman law of material nature. All these people who are against the principle of devotional service are destined to rotate in this material world without fail.
This verse particularly mentions that even sages who are averse to the principles of devotional service to the Lord are also condemned to undergo the terms of material existence. Not only in this age, but formerly also,