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The Glories of Devotional Service
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TRANSLATION
Devahūti remembered the words spoken to her by Brahmā. Seeing her son, Kapila, who could show the ultimate goal of the Absolute Truth, sitting at leisure, she questioned Him as follows.
TEXT 7
देवहूतिरुवाच
निर्विष्णा नितरां भूमन्नसदिन्द्रियतर्षणात् ।
येन सम्भाव्यमानेन प्रपन्नान्धं तमः प्रभो ॥ ७ ॥
devahūtir uvāca nirviṇṇā nitarāṁ bhūmann asad-indriya-tarṣaṇāt yena sambhāvyamānena prapannāndhaṁ tamaḥ prabho
devahūtiḥ uvāca—Devahūti said; nirviṇṇā—disgusted; nitarāṁ—very; bhūman—O my Lord; asat—impermanent; indriya—of the senses; tarṣaṇāt—from agitation; yena—by which; sambhāvyamānena—being prevalent; prapannā—I have fallen; andhaṁ tamaḥ—into the abyss of ignorance; prabho—O my Lord.
TRANSLATION
Devahūti said: I am very sick of the disturbance of my material senses, for because of this sense disturbance, my Lord, I have fallen into the abyss of ignorance.
PURPORT
Here the word  asad-indriya-tarṣaṇāt  is significant.  Asat  means impermanent, temporary, and  indriya  means senses. Thus  asad-indriya-tarṣaṇāt  means from being agitated by the temporarily manifest senses of the material body. We are evolving through different statuses of material bodily existence—sometimes in a human body, sometimes in an animal body—and therefore the engagements of our material senses are also changing. Anything which changes is called temporary, or  asat . We should know that beyond these temporary senses are our permanent senses, which are now